Surviving Chapter 11 Bankruptcies: Duration and Payoff?

Brad Wong, Graham Partington, Maxwell Stevenson and Violet Torbey

Abacus, 2007, vol. 43, issue 3, 363-387

Abstract: Three of the authors previously developed a model to predict the duration of Chapter 11 bankruptcy and the payoff to shareholders (Partington et al., 2001). This work augments that study using a much larger sample to re‐estimate the model and assess its stability. It also provides an opportunity for out‐of‐sample testing of predictive accuracy. The resulting models are based on Cox's proportional hazards model and the current article points to the need to test two important assumptions underlying the model. First, that the hazards are proportional and, second, that censoring is independent of the event studied. Using the extended data set, all the previously significant accounting variables drop out of the model and only two covariates of the original model remain significant. These are the market wide credit spread and the market capitalization of the firm, both measured immediately prior to the firm's entry to Chapter 11. Receiver operating characteristic curves are then used to assess the predictive accuracy of the original and extended models. The results show that Lachenbruch tests can provide a misleading indication of predictive ability out of sample. Using the Lachenbruch method of in‐sample testing, both models show predictive power, but in a true out‐of‐sample test they fail dismally. The lessons of this work are relevant to better predicting the gains and losses likely to accrue to shareholders of companies in Chapter 11 bankruptcy and in similar administrative arrangements in other jurisdictions.

Date: 2007
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