Predicting bankruptcy among SMEs: Evidence from Swedish firm-level data

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 551-565

  Yazdanfar, Darush ^a  

^a MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bankruptcy prediction; Credit risk management; Failure determinants; Financial ratio; SME finance; Sweden

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857244802     PISSN: 14761297     EISSN: 17418054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJESB.2011.043475     Document Type: Article

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