This paper considers financial, operational, solvency, and performance ratios in order to detect when there were balance sheets’ variations related to the 1994 Mexican currency crisis. Quarterly data for 88 non-financial Mexican companies that survived the crisis are used, and tests for...

The following study is concerned with the anticipation of the 1995-1996 Mexican crisis. It uses data from the balance sheets of 73 private, non-financial companies. The results indicate that firms were not able to foresee the coming crisis. This conclusion is robust to using one year, three,...