As a rule, the economy regularly undergoes various phases, from a recession up to expansion. This paper is focused on models predicting corporate financial distress. Its aim is to analyze impact of individual phases of the economic cycle on final scores of the prediction models. The prediction...

The question of predictability of credit spreads is of more than just academic interest. The ability to generate unerring spread forecasts is of considerable practical relevance for both treasurers of companies, who want to finance themselves through bonds, and institutional investors, who must...

First and higher order digits in data sets of natural and socio-economic processes often follow a distribution called Benford's law. This phenomenon has been used in many business and scientific applications, especially in fraud detection for financial data. In this paper, we analyse whether...

Das ifo Geschäftsklima ist ein viel beachteter Indikator für die konjunkturelle Entwicklung in Deutschland. Es ist daher auch immer wieder Gegenstand von wissenschaftlichen Analysen, in denen verschiedene Eigenschaften des Geschäftsklimas untersucht werden. Im Zentrum des Interesses steht...