...Ioannis Anagnostopoulos; Anas Rizeq Purpose This study provides valuable insights to managers aiming to increase the effectiveness of their diversification and growth portfolios. The purpose of this paper is to examine the value of utilizing a neural networks (NNs) approach using mergers...

...Clarence N.W. Tan; Herlina Dihardjo Outlines previous research on company failure prediction and discusses some of the methodological issues involved. Extends an earlier study (Tan 1997) using artificial neural networks (ANN) to predict financial distress in Australian credit unions by extending...

...J. Vincent Eagam; Vijaya Subrahmanyam Explains the strengths and weaknesses of neural networks and uses them to analyse racial patterns in 1994 mortgage (conventional and FHA) data for the city of Atlanta (USA). Admits the difficulty of interpreting the results of neural network models but suggests...

...J. Vincent Eagan; Vijaya Subrahmanyam; Kasim Alli Summarizes the main hypotheses used in previous research on dividend policy and reports a study of patterns in dividend payouts/growth using neural networks as a data mining technique. Discusses the properties of neural networks, recognizes...