Corporate Financial Distress, Restructuring, and Bankruptcy

About the Authors ix Acknowledgments xi Preface xiii Part One The Economic and Legal Framework of Corporate Restructuring and Bankruptcy Chapter 1 Corporate Financial Distress: Introduction and Statistical Background 3 Chapter 2 An Introduction to Leveraged Finance 21 Chapter 3 An Overview of the U.S. Bankruptcy Process 39 Chapter 4 Restructuring Out-of-Court and the Cost of Financial Distress 71 Chapter 5 Valuation of Distressed Firms 91 Chapter 6 Corporate Governance in Distressed Firms 117 Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Outcomes 135 Chapter 8 International Evidence 147 Part Two High-Yield Debt, Prediction of Corporate Distress, and Distress Investing Chapter 9 The High-Yield Bond Market: Risks and Returns for Investors and Analysts 165 Chapter 10 A 50-Year Retrospective on Credit Risk Models, the Altman Z-Score Family of Models, and Their Applications to Financial Markets and Managerial Strategies 189 Chapter 11 Applications of Distress Prediction Models: By External Analysts 217 Chapter 12 Distress Prediction Models: Catalysts for Constructive Change-Managing a Financial Turnaround 235 Chapter 13 A Bottom-Up Approach to Assessing Sovereign Default Risk 245 Chapter 14 The Anatomy of Distressed Debt Markets 265 Chapter 15 Investing in Distressed Firm Securities 277 Chapter 16 Modeling and Estimating Recovery Rates 295 References 315 Author Index 335 Subject Index 343