Financial Distress Prediction in an International Context: A Review and Empirical Analysis of Altman's Z‐Score Model

Author:

Altman Edward I.1,Iwanicz‐Drozdowska Małgorzata2,Laitinen Erkki K.3,Suvas Arto3

Affiliation:

1. NYU Salomon Center Henry Kaufman Management Center, New York University Stern School of Business 44 West Fourth Street New York, NY 10012 USA

2. Institute of Finance, Warsaw School of Economics al. Niepodleglosci 162 02‐513 Warsaw Poland

3. University of Vaasa P.O.Box 700 FI‐65101 Vaasa Finland

Abstract

AbstractThis paper assesses the classification performance of the Z‐Score model in predicting bankruptcy and other types of firm distress, with the goal of examining the model's usefulness for all parties, especially banks that operate internationally and need to assess the failure risk of firms. We analyze the performance of the Z‐Score model for firms from 31 European and three non‐European countries using different modifications of the original model. This study is the first to offer such a comprehensive international analysis. Except for the United States and China, the firms in the sample are primarily private, and include non‐financial companies across all industrial sectors. We use the original Z′′‐Score model developed by Altman, Corporate Financial Distress: A Complete Guide to Predicting, Avoiding, and Dealing with Bankruptcy (1983) for private and public manufacturing and non‐manufacturing firms. While there is some evidence that Z‐Score models of bankruptcy prediction have been outperformed by competing market‐based or hazard models, in other studies, Z‐Score models perform very well. Without a comprehensive international comparison, however, the results of competing models are difficult to generalize. This study offers evidence that the general Z‐Score model works reasonably well for most countries (the prediction accuracy is approximately 0.75) and classification accuracy can be improved further (above 0.90) by using country‐specific estimation that incorporates additional variables.

Publisher

Wiley

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