This paper focuses on the two-side practical approach of credit-scoring models: corporate default prediction and corporate economical performance hierarchization. Taking as database the most 9 representative listed companies on the Bucharest Stock Exchange within the equipment field, the...

Cluster analysis classifies a set of observations into two or more mutually exclusive unknown groups based on combination of interval variables and it has proven to be very useful. The classification aim is grouping the objects between their similarities or dissimilarities and so providing a...

The classical models of portfolio selection could not be applied on a market were the efficient market hypothesis is not valid (at least in a "weak" sense). The aim of this paper is to enlighten the difficulties of portfolio construction in a financial market with institutional and structural...

The globalization improves the prospects for the emerging markets to attain an economic development level comparable with that of industrialized countries. Without ignoring the specific policies concerning the openness degree, globalization might increase capital and technology flows towards...