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The Role Of Survival Analysis In Financial Distress Prediction, Adrian Gepp, Kuldeep Kumar
The Role Of Survival Analysis In Financial Distress Prediction, Adrian Gepp, Kuldeep Kumar
Kuldeep Kumar
Accurate business failure prediction models would be extremely valuable to many industry sectors, particularly in financial investment and lending. The potential value of such models has been recently emphasised by the extremely costly failure of high profile businesses in both Australia and overseas, such as HIH (Australia) and Enron (USA). Consequently, there has been a significant increase in interest in business failure prediction from both industry and academia. Statistical business failure prediction models attempt to predict the failure or success of a business. Discriminant and logit analyses have been the most popular approaches, but there are also a large number …