Over the last 35 years, the topic of business failure prediction has developed to a major research domain in corporate finance. A gigantic number of academic researchers from all over the world have been developing corporate failure prediction models, based on various modelling techniques. The...

This paper analyses the duration of the time to exit of distressed firms, differentiating between involuntary exits (mainly bankruptcies) and voluntary liquidations. It examines how long firms survive after initial signs of economic distress. The study is conducted on an extensive dataset of...

This paper provides new insights on the determinants of firm exit after distress. Using nested logit models and a sample of 6118 distress-related exits from Belgium, we analyze the impacts of available and potential slack and the relative efficiency of voluntary liquidation, compared to...

This paper analyses the duration of the time to exit of distressed firms, differentiating between involuntary exits (mainly bankruptcies) and voluntary liquidations. It examines how long firms survive after initial signs of economic distress. The study is conducted on an extensive dataset of...

This paper provides new insights on the determinants of firm exit after distress. Using nested logit models and a sample of 6118 distress-related exits from Belgium, we analyze the impacts of available and potential slack and the relative efficiency of voluntary liquidation, compared to...

In 1997 heeft het Instituut der Bedrijfsrevisoren, een nieuwe voorstelling van de controleverslagen, toe te passen vanaf 1998, ingevoerd. Deze nieuwe voorstelling ging gepaard met een gedetailleerde omschrijving van de verschillende soorten verslagen. Het is dan ook interessant te onderzoeken...

Deze studie heeft als primaire doel de evolutie van de financiële gezondheid van de Belgische ondernemingen over een periode van 10 jaar in kaart te brengen. Het is de voortzetting van de jaarlijkse uitgave “De financiële toestand van de Belgische ondernemingen” (laatste editie: Ooghe,...

Once a firm decides to issue debt, the characteristics of this debt instrument should be considered. One of the critical decisions involves debt maturity. Using a sample of 1091 Belgian small firms from 1996 until 2000, this study analyses the determinants of the corporate debt-maturity...

Since decades, the topic of business failure prediction has been an important research area for both academics and practitioners. Bankruptcy prediction involves the classification of firms in a failing and a non-failing group3. Generally, this classification is based on (1) a prediction model...

Jaarlijks worden er ongeveer 7000 Belgische ondernemingen, waaronder een kleine 4000 Vlaamse, failliet verklaard. Dat is gemiddeld iets meer dan 19 Belgische of net geen 11 Vlaamse ondernemingen per dag. Het begrip ‘faling’ is in de huidige economische context dan ook zeer actueel en...