Forecasting Financial Failure of Firms via Genetic Algorithms

Computational Economics

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 133-157

  Acosta González, Eduardo ^a   Fernández Rodríguez, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bankruptcy; Financial distress; Financial failure; Genetic algorithms; Variable selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892500947     PISSN: 09277099     EISSN: 15729974     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10614-013-9392-9     Document Type: Article

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