This study is an extension of current research on insolvency diagnosis. We intend to demonstrate that in small firms, the relevant information for the preventive diagnosis of insolvency can be synthesized in a model built upon a more reduced number of economic and financial ratios than the ones...

The impact of economic distress on the financialstructure decisions of an industry has been under-investigated in the businessliterature.This research investigates the impact of the Portugueserecession of the early and mid 1990s on the financial structure decisions ofbusinesses within the...