The purpose of this paper is to present two different approaches of financial distress pre-warning models appropriate for risk supervisors, investors and policy makers. We examine a sample of the financial institutions and electronic companies of Taiwan Security Exchange (TSE) market from 2002...

In this paper discrete choice models, Logit and Probit are examined in order to predict the economic recession or expansion periods in USA. Additionally we propose an adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system with triangular membership function. We examine the in-sample period 1947-2005 and we test...

In this paper we examine three binary regressions in order to predict the financial crisis or no crisis periods in USA. The first one is the Logit model and the other two are binary fuzzy regressions with sigmoid and triangular membership functions. We apply the models in period 1926-2005 and we...