A binary classification method for bankruptcy prediction

Authors:
Jae H. Min;Chulwoo Jeong
Affiliations:
Sogang University, Graduate School of Business, #1, Shinsu-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul 121-742, Republic of Korea;Sogang University, Graduate School of Business, #1, Shinsu-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul 121-742, Republic of Korea
Venue:
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Year:
2009

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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to propose a new binary classification method for predicting corporate failure based on genetic algorithm, and to validate its prediction power through empirical analysis. Establishing virtual companies representing bankrupt companies and non-bankrupt ones, respectively, the proposed method measures the similarity between the virtual companies and the subject for prediction, and classifies the subject into either bankrupt or non-bankrupt one. The values of the classification variables of the virtual companies and the weights of the variables are determined by the proper model to maximize the hit ratio of training data set using genetic algorithm. In order to test the validity of the proposed method, we compare its prediction accuracy with those of other existing methods such as multi-discriminant analysis, logistic regression, decision tree, and artificial neural network, and it is shown that the binary classification method we propose in this paper can serve as a promising alternative to the existing methods for bankruptcy prediction.