Modelling corporate failure: A multinomial nested logit analysis for unordered outcomes

British Accounting Review

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 89-107

  Jones, Stewart ^a   Hensher, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Financial distress prediction; Multinomial nested logit; Standard logit; Unordered outcomes

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847046461     PISSN: 08908389     EISSN: 10958347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bar.2006.12.003     Document Type: Article

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