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Indicators of corporate default : an EU based empirical study

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Aaro Hazak ()
Kadri Männasoo ()
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The present paper contributes to the research on the indicators that provide a warning of company failure by employing micro and macro variables within a framework of survival analysis using a sample of 0.4 million companies from the European Union (EU). The sensitivity of the results is checked using two complementary event definitions - bankruptcy and negative equity. Our results imply that the baseline hazard of a default is a U-shaped function of the time the company has survived. High leverage and a low return on assets appear to be strong predictors of failure. Macroeconomic variables give mixed evidence for old and new member states as well as for the two default definitions

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Paper provided by Bank of Estonia in its series Bank of Estonia Working Papers with number 2007-10.

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Date of creation: 04 Sep 2007
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Keywords: corporate default; bankruptcy; survival analysis;

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G33 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Bankruptcy; Liquidation
C41 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Duration Analysis

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