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In finance, a holdout problem occurs when a bond issuer is in default or nears default, and launches an exchange offer in an attempt to restructure debt held by existing bond holders. Such exchange offers typically require the consent of holders of some minimum portion of the total outstanding debt, often in excess of 90%, because, unless the ...
Hold-up problems are created from the existence of firm-specific investments, but also from the set of long-term contracts that are used in the presence of the certain investments. Whether a vertical integration is adopted as a solution to the hold-up problem depends on the magnitude of the specific investment and the ability to write long-term ...
Minister Alfonso Prat-Gay takes part in meetings with the IMF and the World Bank, shortly after the end of the default.. The Argentine debt restructuring is a process of debt restructuring by Argentina that began on January 14, 2005, and allowed it to resume payment on 76% of the US$82 billion in sovereign bonds that defaulted in 2001 at the depth of the worst economic crisis in the nation's ...
The market developed for distressed securities as the number of large public companies in financial distress increased in the 1980s and early 1990s. [5] In 1992, professor Edward Altman, who developed the Altman Z-score formula for predicting bankruptcy in 1968, estimated "the market value of the debt securities" of distressed firms as "is approximately $20.5 billion, a $42.6 billion in face ...
American consumer debt — including mortgages, car loans, credit cards and student loans — reached $16.90 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2022, according to the New York Federal Reserve. This ...
In the first quarter of 2024, federal debt as a percent of GDP was 97.3%. This large debt burden and the lack of spending restraint is causing some economists and investors to worry about a ...
This problem emerges, for example, if a company has a new investment project with positive net present value (NPV), but cannot capture the investment opportunity due to an existing debt position, i.e., the face value of the existing debt is bigger than the expected payoff. Hence, the equity holders will be reluctant to invest in such a project ...
Whether Dimon gets his wish and taxes are increased so the government can invest in solving problems will depend in large part on who wins the next election in November 2024.