The Relevance and Utility of Distress Risk and Corporate Failure Forecasts -- Searching for the Holy Grail: Alternative Statistical Modelling Approaches -- The Rise of the Machines -- An Empirical Application of Modern Machine Learning Methods -- Corporate Failure Models for Private Companies,...

Whilst there is increasing research attention on predicting financial distress, the existing literature is subject to two specific limitations. The first is that a firm can experience a financial distress event (e.g., loan default, bankruptcy) more than once, yet most studies that model...