Purpose: The goal of this study was to propose the multi-agent mechanism to forecast the corporate financial distress. Design/methodology/approach: This study utilized numerous methods, namely random subspace method, discriminant analysis and decision tree to construct the multi-agent...

This paper develops a new multi-agent model to create a novel warning signal for equity investment, which well replicates actual stock and bond futures price dynamics through estimating fund flows of typical trading agents. Particularly, our model contains four types of agents taking equity/bond...