The paper discusses methodological topics of bankruptcy prediction modelling—unbalanced sampling, sample bias, and unbiased predictions of bankruptcy. Bankruptcy models are typically estimated with the use of non-random samples, which creates sample choice biases. We consider two types of...

Economic time series are available at different frequencies due to their origin and data collection techniques. A mixed data sampling (MIDAS) regression is mainly a forecasting tool designed to harness mixed-frequency data. This dissertation proposes a computationally efficient estimation...