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During 2007, one of the worst global crises struck the business world; it originated in the United States, then Europe became involved less than a year later. This global economic crisis is considered the worst since the Great Depression of the 1920s and 1930s.

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Pozzoli, M., Paolone, F. (2017). Introduction. In: Corporate Financial Distress. SpringerBriefs in Finance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67355-4_1

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