Measuring Financial Distress and Predicting Corporate Bankruptcy: An Index Approach

In this paper, we follow Anderson et al. (2009) and suggest a simple approach to employ a set of financial ratios as inputs to estimate an aggregate bankruptcy index (ABI). This index is a within sample measure, ranges between 0 and 1, and ranks the firms on the basis of their relative financial dis...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Liao Qunfeng, Mehdian Seyed
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2016-06-01
Series:Review of Economic and Business Studies
Subjects:
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m41
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/rebs-2016-0024