as growth models have been different. The major objective of this paper is to compare the policies, institutions … terms of trends and patterns of growth and development, economic models, sources and drivers of growth; achievements …

This paper estimates ordered logit and probit regression models for bank ratings which also include a country index to … quantitative models are not likely to be able to predict ratings with complete accuracy. Furthermore, we find that both … quantitative models and rating agencies are likely to produce highly inaccurate predictions of ratings during periods of financial …

at the retail banking market. Parametric and non- parametric approaches are employed to produce three models using … logistic regression (parametric) and one model using Classification and Regression Trees (CART, nonparametric). The models are … that parametric as well as non-parametric methods can produce successful models. We are able to obtain similar results even …