This study estimates some direct and indirect costs of bankruptcy in the Australian context from September 1978 to May 1983.The findings are: first, there was some degree of capital market inefficiency in the processing of infor Mation relevant to the bankrupt firms; second, bankruptcy costs, in...

This paper addresses three methodological problems in previous studies of bankruptcy models using MDA and logit/probit techniques: (i) the use of choice-based and equally distributed samples in model estimation and validation; (ii) the use of arbitrary cut-off probabilities; and, (Hi) the...

This paper provides Australian evidence of the comparative forecasting power of the three inflation models (interest rate, time series, and survey forecasts). In particular, it examines the rationality (in the Muthian sense) of the survey forecasts.The following results are obtained: first, the...