Summary of relevant papers
| Study | Sample size | Period | Models *** | Findings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beaver (1966) | 275 | 1949–1963 | FR | Accounting data can be utilized for prediction |
| Altman (1968) | 66 | 1946–1965 | MDA | MDA model can predict corporate failure correctly with 94% accuracy |
| Ohlson (1980) | 105 | 1970–1976 | LR | Significant improvement may require additional predictors |
| Raghupathi et al. (1991) | 129 | 1975–1982 | ANN | NN has a significant role in predicting failure |
| Sun and Shenoy (2007) | 7,822 | 1989–2002 | BN | Best when the number of states for discretization is 2 or 3 |
| Chandra et al. (2009) | 16,816 | 1962–1999 | MLP, CART, LR, RF, SVM, BS | t-statistic used for feature selection and ten features are mined |
| Ioannidis et al. (2010) | 944 | 2007–2008 | MLP, CART, KNN, LR, SM | Multi-criteria decision aid and artificial neural networks (ANNs) achieve the highest accuracies |
| Cecchini et al. (2010) | 156 | 1994–1999 | SVM | Bankruptcy (83.87%) and fraud (81.97%) with the combined data |
| Kim and Kang (2010) | 1,458 | 2002–2005 | SVM, Adaboost, GMBoost | Bagged and the boosted neural networks showed improved performance over traditional neural networks |
| Yeh et al. (2010) | 114 | 2005–2007 | DEA + Rough sets + SVM | DEA provides valuable information in predictions |
| Chen (2011) | 100 | 2000–2007 | PCA, DT, LR | The artificial intelligent approach could be a more suitable methodology than traditional statistics |
| Olson et al. (2012) | 1,321 | 2005–2009 | DT, LR, MLP, RBFN, SVM | Decision trees were relatively more accurate compared to neural networks and support vector machines |
| du Jardin and Séverin (2012) | 17,480 | 1998–2004 | MDA, LR, ANN | Kohonen map can be used as a prediction model |
| Booth et al. (2014) | 2000–2012 | LR, DT, ANN, SVR, RF | Recency-weighted ensembles of random forests produce better results | |
| Heo (2014) | 29,862 | 2012–2018 | AdaBoost, ANN, SVM, DT | The AdaBoost has more analytical power than others |
| Geng et al. (2015) | 214 | 2001–2008 | ANN, DT, SVM, MDA | Neural networks provide the highest accuracy and are robust to experimental conditions |
| Danenas and Garsva (2015) | 21,487 | 2000–2007 | SVM, ANN, LR | SVM technique is capable to produce results, comparable to other classifiers, such as logistic regression and RBF network |
| Liang et al. (2016) | 478 | 1999–2009 | SVM, KNN, NB, CART, MLP | Classifications of the board and ownership composition are the most important features |
| Xiao et al. (2016) | 1,000 | SVM, BG, DT, LR | Weighted voting generates diverse and locally accurate base classifiers | |
| Barboza et al. (2017) | 13,300 | 1985–2013 | SVM, BG, BO, RF, ANN, MDA, LR | ML models can be utilized for creating a model with better classification correctness |
| Jones (2017) | 1,115 | 1987–2013 | GMBoost | CEO compensation and ownership structure are the strongest predictors |
| Mai et al. (2019) | 11,827 | 1994–2014 | ANN, LR, SVM, RF | deep learning can efficiently integrate the incremental information from textual data with numeric information and achieve better prediction accuracy |
| Hosaka (2019) | 2,168 | 2012–2016 | ANN, DT, LR, SVM, Adaboost, MDA | ANN performance is higher compared to other methods |
| Study | Sample size | Period | Models *** | Findings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 275 | 1949–1963 | FR | Accounting data can be utilized for prediction | |
| 66 | 1946–1965 | MDA | MDA model can predict corporate failure correctly with 94% accuracy | |
| 105 | 1970–1976 | LR | Significant improvement may require additional predictors | |
| 129 | 1975–1982 | ANN | NN has a significant role in predicting failure | |
| 7,822 | 1989–2002 | BN | Best when the number of states for discretization is 2 or 3 | |
| 16,816 | 1962–1999 | MLP, CART, LR, RF, SVM, BS | ||
| 944 | 2007–2008 | MLP, CART, KNN, LR, SM | Multi-criteria decision aid and artificial neural networks (ANNs) achieve the highest accuracies | |
| 156 | 1994–1999 | SVM | Bankruptcy (83.87%) and fraud (81.97%) with the combined data | |
| 1,458 | 2002–2005 | SVM, Adaboost, GMBoost | Bagged and the boosted neural networks showed improved performance over traditional neural networks | |
| 114 | 2005–2007 | DEA + Rough sets + SVM | DEA provides valuable information in predictions | |
| 100 | 2000–2007 | PCA, DT, LR | The artificial intelligent approach could be a more suitable methodology than traditional statistics | |
| 1,321 | 2005–2009 | DT, LR, MLP, RBFN, SVM | Decision trees were relatively more accurate compared to neural networks and support vector machines | |
| 17,480 | 1998–2004 | MDA, LR, ANN | Kohonen map can be used as a prediction model | |
| 2000–2012 | LR, DT, ANN, SVR, RF | Recency-weighted ensembles of random forests produce better results | ||
| 29,862 | 2012–2018 | AdaBoost, ANN, SVM, DT | The AdaBoost has more analytical power than others | |
| 214 | 2001–2008 | ANN, DT, SVM, MDA | Neural networks provide the highest accuracy and are robust to experimental conditions | |
| 21,487 | 2000–2007 | SVM, ANN, LR | SVM technique is capable to produce results, comparable to other classifiers, such as logistic regression and RBF network | |
| 478 | 1999–2009 | SVM, KNN, NB, CART, MLP | Classifications of the board and ownership composition are the most important features | |
| 1,000 | SVM, BG, DT, LR | Weighted voting generates diverse and locally accurate base classifiers | ||
| 13,300 | 1985–2013 | SVM, BG, BO, RF, ANN, MDA, LR | ML models can be utilized for creating a model with better classification correctness | |
| 1,115 | 1987–2013 | GMBoost | CEO compensation and ownership structure are the strongest predictors | |
| 11,827 | 1994–2014 | ANN, LR, SVM, RF | deep learning can efficiently integrate the incremental information from textual data with numeric information and achieve better prediction accuracy | |
| 2,168 | 2012–2016 | ANN, DT, LR, SVM, Adaboost, MDA | ANN performance is higher compared to other methods |
Note(s): Artificial neural networks (ANNs), Bayesian network (BN), classification and regression trees (CART), data envelopment analysis (DEA), decision trees (DT), financial ratios (FR), K-nearest neighbor (KNN), logistic regression (LR), multilayer perceptron (MLP), multivariate discriminant analysis (MDA), radial basis function network (RBFN), random forest (RF), stacked models (SM), support vector machines (SVM)
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