The financial crisis of 2007-2009 raised concerns regarding countries’ abilities to rescue their largest banks should a new crisis emerge. By focusing on European Union banks from 2001 through 2019, this dissertation investigates the impact of both absolute and systemic bank siz…
After suspending payment on their debts in 1875 and 1876, the Ottoman Empire and the largely autonomous province of Egypt were subjected to unprecedented forms of intervention in their domestic affairs. Spearheading the interference were two international financial commissions: …
This dissertation consists of four essays. The topics broadly speaking cover industrial organization (essay one), corporate finance/law and economics (essay two) and political economy (essays three and four). The first essay is "Consolidation, Volume and Outcomes in Leukemia Tre…
The main objective of this thesis is to examine the causes of the bankruptcy of Esbank, Turkey. This case study shows the links between bankruptcy and corruption. The study demonstrates that bankruptcy for profit, namely looting and outright fraud in the form of lending resource…
This quantitative study involved a path model approach to study why some of the key ethanol producers filed for bankruptcy after the commodities market price volatility of 2008. The path included analysis of the magnitude of cointegration of the futures prices of the key input a…
Bankruptcy law constitutes a part of the economic life. The provisions concerning bankruptcy serve to function the economic and social life in a proper way. The functioning of the bankruptcy, which is an important institution in terms of national economy and social welfare, depe…
This dissertation traces the history of two regional orchestras in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Oakland and San José Symphonies, from their inceptions through their Chapter 7 Bankruptcy filings in 1986 and 2002, respectively. I pay special attention to the decades preceding t…