Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/176418 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Citation: 
[Journal:] Financial Innovation [ISSN:] 2199-4730 [Volume:] 2 [Issue:] 6 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Heidelberg [Year:] 2016 [Pages:] 1-28
Publisher: 
Springer, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
Background: The suitability and performance of the bankruptcy prediction models is an empirical question. The aim of this paper is to develop a bankruptcy prediction model for Indian manufacturing companies on a sample of 208 companies consisting of an equal number of defaulted and non-defaulted firms. Out of 208 companies, 130 are used for estimation sample, and 78 are holdout for model validation. The study reestimates the accounting based models such as Altman EI (Journal of Finance 23: 19189-209, 1968) Z-Score, Ohlson JA (Journal of Accounting Research 18:109-131, 1980) Y-Score and Zmijewski ME (Journal of Accounting Research 22:59-82, 1984) X-Score model. The paper compares original and re-estimated models to explore the sensitivity of these models towards the change in time periods and financial conditions. Methods: Multiple Discriminant Analysis (MDA) and Probit techniques are employed in the estimation of Z-Score and X-Score models, whereas Logit technique is employed in the estimation of Y-Score and the newly proposed models. The performance of all the original, re-estimated and new proposed models are assessed by predictive accuracy, significance of parameters, long-range accuracy, secondary sample and Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) tests. Results: The major findings of the study reveal that the overall predictive accuracy of all the three models improves on estimation and holdout sample when the coefficients are re-estimated. Amongst the contesting models, the new bankruptcy prediction model outperforms other models. Conclusions: The industry specific model should be developed with the new combinations of financial ratios to predict bankruptcy of the firms in a particular country. The study further suggests the coefficients of the models are sensitive to time periods and financial condition. Hence, researchers should be cautioned while choosing the models for bankruptcy prediction to recalculate the models by looking at the recent data in order to get higher predictive accuracy.
Subjects: 
Bankruptcy prediction
Indian manufacturing companies
MDA
Logit
Probit
Unstable coefficient
Predictive accuracy
Receiver operating characteristic
Long range accuracy
JEL: 
G33
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Document Type: 
Article

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