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The ability to predict corporate financial distress can be strengthened using models that account for serial correlation in the data, incorporate information from more than one period and include stationary explanatory variables. This paper develops a stationary financial distress model for AMEX and NYSE manufacturing and retailing firms based on the statistical methodology of time-series Cumulative Sums (CUSUM). The model has the ability to distinguish between changes in the financial variables of a firm that are the result of serial correlation and changes that are the result of permanent shifts in the mean structure of the variables due to financial distress. Tests performed show that the model is robust over time and outperforms similar models based on the popular statistical methods of Linear Discriminant Analysis and Logit.
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Kahya, E., Theodossiou, P. Predicting Corporate Financial Distress: A Time-Series CUSUM Methodology. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting 13, 323–345 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008326706404
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