Bühler, Stefan (contributor); Kaiser, Christian (contributor) - 2007
This paper examines the role of geography and culture in explaining bankruptcy. We adopt survival analyses to model the … bankruptcy risk of a firm, allowing for time-varying covariates. Based on a large sample from all major sectors of the Swiss …-periphery approach, has a significant impact on its bankruptcy risk; (ii) Variables proxying for the cultural environment of a firm have …