In view of the failure of high profile companies like Circuit City and Linens n Things, Financial distress or bankruptcy prediction has generated much interest recently. This research develops and tests a model for the prediction of bankruptcy of retail firms. We use accounting variables such as...

In view of the failure of high-profile companies such as Circuit City and Linens n Things, Financial distress or bankruptcy prediction of retail and other firms has generated much interest recently. Recent economic conditions have led to predictions of a wave of retail bankruptcies (e.g.,...

This paper examines the usefulness of logit regression in forecasting the consumer bankruptcy of households using an imbalanced dataset. The research on consumer bankruptcy prediction is of paramount importance as it aims to build statistical models that can identify consumers in a difficult...