Bankruptcy prediction: The case of Japanese listed companies

Review of Accounting Studies

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 534-558

  Xu, Ming ^a   Zhang, Chu ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Accounting information; Bank dependence; Bankruptcy risk measure; Japanese listed companies; Keiretsu; Option pricing theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350303299     PISSN: 13806653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11142-008-9080-5     Document Type: Article

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