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Åstebro, Thomas und Winter, Joachim ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2460-619X (2012): More than a dummy: The probability of failure, survival and acquisition of firms in financial distress. In: European Management Review, Vol. 9, No. 1: pp. 1-17

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Abstract

We discuss three methodological issues concerning forecasts of the outcome of financial distress. First, we argue that rather than using a binary model the outcome of financial distress should be modeled using a multinomial specification that distinguishes between failure, survival as going concern, and acquisition. We also argue for a random rather than matched-pair sampling technique to better reflect decision making reality. Finally, we investigate the value of using industry-mean adjusted regressors. We find that the binary bankruptcy model is mis-specified relative to the multinomial model, that the matched sampling technique overstates model accuracy and that industry specific intercepts have better explanatory power than industry-adjusted regressors.

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