The objective of this study was to analyse the determinants for the composition of board of directors of publicly traded SMEs in ABC region of Metropolitan Sao Paulo. The study is of great relevance in Brazil in that, it contributes to solve problem of lack of publications. Similar studies...

In this paper we examine three binary regressions in order to predict the financial crisis or no crisis periods in USA. The first one is the Logit model and the other two are binary fuzzy regressions with sigmoid and triangular membership functions. We apply the models in period 1926-2005 and we...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine two different approaches in the prediction of the economic recession periods in the US economy.Design/methodology/approach – A logit regression was applied and the prediction performance in two out-of-sample periods, 2007-2009 and 2010 was...