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 paper considers whether the existing measures of credit risk order and quantify corporate credit risk in the same way. Eight measures of credit risk of different natures are compared: Altman's Z, Ohlson's O, Hannan and Hanweck model, Zmijewski model, bond spreads, CDS spreads,...

We analyse the impact of default probability in four leading Latin American stock markets (Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico). We find no positive default risk premium except in the case of Brazil, and in fact find a negative risk premium for Argentina and Mexico. The latter effect tends to...