We analyze a comprehensive sample of more than 10,000 U.S. stocks in the OTC market. As little is known about this market, we first characterize OTC firms by trading venue and provide evidence on survival, success, frequency of venue changes, reporting status, and trading activity. A large...

This paper looks at divestitures by 144 UK firms listed on the London Stock Exchange from 1985 to 1991 and investigates whether and how accurately investors price the firm’s option to abandon assets in exchange for their exit value. Theory prices this real option as an American style put and...

The analysis by scoring methods is usually carried out by banks in the analysis of creditworthiness, when a company asks for a bank loan. Each bank has its own analysis, including a feature-score calculated internally based on indicators defined in its credit manual. To have a national...

Internet Financial Reporting (IFR) is voluntary in nature. With no specific regulations for IFR, there is a disparity of IFR practices among companies. Some companies disclose only partial financial statements using a low level of technology, while others disclose full sets of financial reports...

The objective is to develop a mathematical model of the firm to show the relationship between profitability, growth, and financial flow concepts especially under conditions for failing firms. It is assumed that revenue flows are generated by periodic expenditures growing at a steady rate. These...

We investigate the relative importance of various bankruptcy predictors commonly used in the existing literature by applying a variable selection technique, the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO), to a comprehensive bankruptcy database. Over the 1980–2009 period, LASSO...

Using a recently expanded data set on supplier-customer links, we examine how customer concentration affects firm profitability. We find that the relation between customer concentration and firm profitability is more complex than recent literature suggests. We confirm that customer concentration...

The paper presents the approach for the verification of the lemma used for the model for reputation risk for subsidiaries of non-public group with reciprocal shareholding as proposed by the author in priory works. For all entities with the absolute value of the reputation risk greater than the...

Bu çalışmada, sinir ağı modelleri tanıtılmakta ve finansal başarısızlığa uğramış bankalarla başarılı bankaların sınıflandırılmasında kullanılmaktadır. Sınıflandırma işlemi için modellere girdi olarak Türkiye’de faaliyet gösteren bankalara ait 36 finansal ve...

Market economy in Romania bring corporate takeovers and acquisitions. A purchase or acquisition of capital is the first mega-budget project, because a commercial entity might decide to take another business entity only if it increases shareholder wealth. Looking at this strictly from the...