Abstract
In the current competitive and uncertain e-commerce environment, businesses have the need to predict in advance their likelihood of falling into bankruptcy. The central focus of this paper is to statistically model through different approaches the bankruptcy probability of e-commerce companies in Europe. The authors examine the econometric techniques, two-step cluster, logistic regression, discriminant analysis, data mining tree, and ROC curves, to classify these companies into “bankrupt” and “not bankrupt”. This paper finds also evidences about the current credit underwriting inexperience among several financial institutions. The classification approaches included in this paper may be applied in real working practice whether by credit underwriters or by business decision-makers. The research was developed using financial and accounting information available in the Bureau van Dijk database. This paper suggests further analytical developments in the field of predictive bankruptcies and recommends improvements on the credit evaluation scorecards such as the inclusion of advanced online metrics to increase the accuracy of the creditworthiness evaluation of an e-commerce company.
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The research leading to these results received funding from the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007–2013 under REA grant agreement number 609642. We also acknowledge support from the Czech Science Foundation (grant 15-00036S). The views expressed in the paper are those of the authors and not necessarily those of our institutions.
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Janda, K., Moreira, D. (2017). Predictive Bankruptcy of European e-Commerce: Credit Underwriters Inexperience and Self-assessment. In: Procházka, D. (eds) New Trends in Finance and Accounting . Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49559-0_9
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