Corporate failure prediction modeling: Distorted by business groups' internal capital markets?

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting

Volumn 33, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 909-931

  Dewaelheyns, Nico ^a   Van Hulle, Cynthia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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EID: 33747162728     PISSN: 0306686X     EISSN: 14685957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5957.2006.00009.x     Document Type: Article

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