December 2018

Bankruptcy prediction and homogeneity of firm samples: The case of Greece

This paper explores the prediction of bankruptcy of Greek retail and wholesale trade companies and, in particular, the relation between the forecasting ability of the Logit model and the degree of homogeneity of the samples of bankrupt and healthy companies. A sample of 119 bankrupt companies was matched with an equal sample of healthy companies for the period 2003-2014, based on year, sector, and sub-sector, which was...

Author(s): Arnis Nikolaos I., Chytis Evangelos T. and Kolias Georgios D.