Peer group benchmarking, which compares executive compensation contracts against a group of similar companies, is a widely used yet heavily debated technique for setting executive compensation. Critics argue that it has produced an increase in top executive compensation. Prior research indeed...

We investigate the performance of various survival analysis techniques applied to ten actual credit data sets from Belgian and UK financial institutions. In the comparison we consider classical survival analysis techniques, namely the accelerated failure time models and Cox proportional hazards...