Small firms play an important role in most modern economies nevertheless they are not without their problems. Therefore, the development of business failure prediction models for small firms is quite important. In the present study we employ three multicriteria decision aid (MCDA) techniques for...

We adjust the dividend-price ratio for share repurchases and investigate whether predictive power can be improved when constructing forecasts of UK and French equity premia. Regulations in the two largest European stock markets allow us to employ actual repurchase data in our predictive...