Computational Text Analysis Working Group (CTAWG)
Title: The Cost of Conflict in Bankruptcy Reorganizations
Speaker: Kenneth Ayotte, Robert L. Bridges Professor of Law, UC Berkeley
Abstract: Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganizations are complex and involve negotiations between classes of claims about how a company’s value is to be divided among these claims. Sometimes these negotiations can be resolved quickly and cheaply, while other cases are long, contentious affairs. We would like to use text analysis to understand the causes and consequences of conflict in bankruptcy cases. We have a corpus of over 1.5 million documents in about 290 Chapter 11 cases, including the fees and expenses of professionals that accrue during the case. We would like to measure conflict/harmony in the case using the text, and understand how this correlates with the speed and cost of the bankruptcy case.
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