2012
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2012.02.005
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The cost and timing of financial distress

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“…In detecting fraud, it is necessary to check fraud (fraud auditing). Fraud checking is a proactive audit approach that is designed to respond to fraud risk [11]. The audit process must be based on cheating theory.…”
Section: B Fraudulent Financial Reportingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In detecting fraud, it is necessary to check fraud (fraud auditing). Fraud checking is a proactive audit approach that is designed to respond to fraud risk [11]. The audit process must be based on cheating theory.…”
Section: B Fraudulent Financial Reportingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…8 In order to derive the average maturity of total liabili es, we start by calcula ng a weighted average 6 Since put op ons with different strikes behave similarly with respect to changes in the asset value and in the other model parameters, very li le would be gained by using more than one op on in the es ma on. 7 A similar assump on is employed in Ericsson et al (2007) and Elkamhi et al (2012). 8 While a typical firm usually has several different kinds of debt outstanding our capital structure model considers only a single bond.…”
Section: Parameters To Be Es Matedmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These ex ante es mates amount to an average of 4.5%. Elkamhi et al (2012) point out that esmates by Andrade & Kaplan (1998) should be applied to ex-post asset values at the me of bankruptcy. They therefore extend this approach using a structural model, which allows them to map the ex-post bankruptcy cost percentages to ex-ante percentages and find that they are too low to support commonly observed leverage ra os.…”
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“…More recent work uses lower tax rates (based on Graham (2000)) and lower bankruptcy costs (based on Andrade and Kaplan (1998), who report numbers about a third as large). It could be the case, however, that costs at default are in fact much higher ex ante than those observed ex post (see, e.g., Glover (2016)) or that distress costs are realized prior to default (see, e.g., Elkamhi, Ericsson, and Parsons (2012)). In addition, the dependence of bankruptcy costs on the state of the economy may be an alternative mechanism that influences the level of the optimal leverage.…”
Section: B Capital Structurementioning
confidence: 99%