Bankruptcy Prediction with Industry Effects

Sudheer Chava and Robert Jarrow ()

Chapter 21 in Financial Derivatives Pricing:Selected Works of Robert Jarrow, 2008, pp 517-549 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: AbstractThis paper investigates the forecasting accuracy of bankruptcy hazard rate models for U.S. companies over the time period 1962–1999 using both yearly and monthly observation intervals. The contribution of this paper is multiple-fold. One, using an expanded bankruptcy database we validate the superior forecasting performance of Shumway's (2001) model as opposed to Altman (1968) and Zmijewski (1984). Two, we demonstrate the importance of including industry effects in hazard rate estimation. Industry groupings are shown to significantly affect both the intercept and slope coefficients in the forecasting equations. Three, we extend the hazard rate model to apply to financial firms and monthly observation intervals. Due to data limitations, most of the existing literature employs only yearly observations. We show that bankruptcy prediction is markedly improved using monthly observation intervals. Fourth, consistent with the notion of market efficiency with respect to publicly available information, we demonstrate that accounting variables add little predictive power when market variables are already included in the bankruptcy model.

Keywords: Derivatives; Options; Hedging; HJM; Black–Scholes; Forwards; Futures; Martingale Measure; Calls; Puts; Market Manipulation; Margin Requirements (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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