Evaluating Firms In Financial Distress: An Event History Analysis

Corporate Financial Distress: An Empirical Analysis of Distress Risk

Event history analysis

The aim of event history analysis is to explain why certain individuals are at a higher risk than others of experiencing the event(s) of interest. This can be accomplished by using special types of methods which, depending on the field in which they are applied, are called failure-time models, life-time models, survival models, transition-rate models, response-time models, event history models,...

An Investigation into Effects of Dividend Policy on Financial Growth of Advertising Firms in Kenya

Effects of dividend policy on corporate financial growth, is a major concern of most entities. Whether dividends have an influence on the value of the firm, is an important question in dividend policy. This study aimed at investigating the effects of dividend policy on financial growth of media firms. The study was conducted in Nairobi at The Nation media Group Headquarters. Respondents were se...

Predicting Financial Distress in Tehran Stock Exchange

Companies incur significant costs from the financial distress. Predicting financial distress will have an important role in preventing bankruptcy. The aim of the present study is to predict the financial distress costs using the Leland and Toft models, during 1996 and 1998. This study examines data relating to 49 companies listed in the Tehran stock exchange collected over ten years from 2005 t...

Time to Tenure in Spanish Universities: An Event History Analysis

Understanding how institutional incentives and mechanisms for assigning recognition shape access to a permanent job is important. This study, based on data from questionnaire survey responses and publications of 1,257 university science, biomedical and engineering faculty in Spain, attempts to understand the timing of getting a permanent position and the relevant factors that account for this t...