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Part 1: Corporate insolvency and bankruptcy ; Chapter 1: Continuation and liquidation timing: a pareto optimal approach : Chapter 2: The Effects of financial, industrial and macroeconomic factors on the continuation and liquidation timing ; Chapter 3: Macroeconomic aspects of firm bankruptcy analysis ; Chapter 4: Interindustry linkages and business bankruptcy rates: evidence from Australia -- Part 2: Risk sharing, risk spreading and insolvency in agriculture ; Chapter 5: The implications of financial cooperation in Israel's semi-cooperative villages ; Chapter 6: The consequences of mutually secured debts: The case of Israeli Moshavim ; Chapter 7: Risk spreading in farmers' production choice: evidence from India -- Part 3: Sovereign external-debt crises: the case of the developing countries ; Chapter 8: An overview of the developing countries' external-debt problem ; Chapter 9: Are the external debts of developing countries a symptom or a cause of economic slowdown? ; Chapter 10: An integrative analysis of external debt, capital accumulation and production in Latin America, Asia-Pacific and Sub-Saharan Africa ; Chapter 11: An analysis of the potential externalities affecting the borrowing behaviour of developing countries ; Chapter 12: Repudiation, retaliation and the secondary market price of sovereign debts ; Chapter 13: Repudiation, seizure and reputation within a game theoretic framework ; Chapter 14: The role of repudiation and trade and credit sanctions in the accumulation of sovereign debt, capital and reputation ; Chapter 15: Rescheduling a sovereign debt: expected repayment, risk and time preference.