Contents * A: Historical development of credit and behavioural scoring * R W Johnson: Legal, social and economic issues in implementing scoring in the US * R Eisenbeis: Problems in applying discriminant analysis in credit scoring models * M A Hopper and E M Lewis: Behaviour scoring and adaptive...

New start-up companies, which are considered to be a vital ingredient in a successful economy, have a different objective than established companies: They want to maximise their chance of long-term survival. We examine the implications for their operating decisions of this different criterion by...