For the most part, research purporting to address the issue of financial distress has actually studied samples of bankrupt companies. Financial distress and bankruptcy are different. In contrast, this paper starts with a sample of companies that are financially distressed but not yet bankrupt....

Financial distress precedes bankruptcy. Most financial distress models actually rely on bankruptcy data, which is easier to obtain. We obtained a dataset of financially distressed but not yet bankrupt companies supplying a major auto manufacturer. An early warning model successfully...

This study focuses on measurements used by executives and product design managers to evaluate the performance of individual product designers, product design groups, and product development teams. Primary data were collected from design managers at two workshops and via a questionnaire. The...

This paper examines the effect of deregulation on thrift cost inefficiencies using the thick frontier framework proposed by Berger and Humphrey(6). Thick frontiers were estimated for a sample of nonacquiring thrifts in 1978 and then in 1988, a period during which there was deregulation. The...

This article examines the shareholder wealth effects for foreign companies that announce acquisitions of financial institutions in Latin America. We examine data for 636 transactions for the period 1985–2009. We employ event study methodology coupled with a cross-sectional regression to...

Seven major Latin American countries had moderately high growth rates during the period 2001–2012.We used indicators of capital market modernization and corruption to explain the widely varying GDP growth figures for each time frame and also assessed whether export growth was highly...