In the present study, we investigate the explanatory power of information such as auditors' opinion and auditors' size in predicting impending bankruptcy for companies operating in the Greek market. Using nine financial ratios and two dummy variables, covering all dimensions of firms' financial...

Disaggregation methods have become popular in multicriteria decision aiding (MCDA) for eliciting preferential information and constructing decision models from decision examples. From a statistical point of view, data mining and machine learning are also involved with similar problems, mainly...

A fundamental principle of modern portfolio theory is that comparisons between portfolios are generally made using two criteria, corresponding to the first two moments of return distributions, namely the expected return and portfolio variance. According to this model and according to most of the...

Ratings issued by credit rating agencies (CRAs) play an important role in the global financial environment. Among other issues, past studies have explored the potential for predicting these ratings using a variety of explanatory factors and modeling approaches. This paper describes a...

This study aims to assess the Cost Efficiency (CE) of the Greek cooperative banks over the period 2000–2005. We first use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to estimate the technical, allocative and cost efficiency for each bank in sample. Then, we use a bootstrapping censored (Tobit)...

Over recent decades, the forecasting and prediction of stock market acquisitions have been subject to increased interest due to the economic importance for various stakeholders. This study consists of two stages: dealing with the development of prediction models and their subsequent use within...

Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to examine the efficiency and productivity of a Greek bank's branches. Design/methodology/approach -The sample consists of 458 branches of a Greek commercial bank, operating in 13 regions of Greece over the period 2002-2005, a total of 1,795 observations....