This article attempts to identify the default risk measure which best reflects the idiosyncratic context of public family firms. Seven accounting- and market-based measures are compared over a sample of 981 US family and non-family firms for the period 2000-2016. The results show that the...

This article attempts to identify the default risk measure which best reflects the idiosyncratic context of public family firms. Seven accounting- and market-based measures are compared over a sample of 981 US family and non-family firms for the period 2000-2016. The results show that the...

These are uncertain and unnerving times for southern Sudan. This is a region facing numerous challenges and deadly dangers. In this short paper we take a look at the security issues facing the southern part of this country and look at the likelihood of it ever achieving independence from the north