This paper reviews the literature on corporate disclosure. Policymakers often support corporate disclosure but more contrasted views have emerged in the academic literature, showing that even if disclosure can actually benefits to shareholders, it is costly and it may trigger pernicious effects. Disclosing information is expensive (communication and audit costs, competitors access strategic information, and induced managers' suboptimal behavior). It also generates informational costs, as firms can disclose false, manipulated, too complex or too extensive information. And disclosure can reduce actors' incentives to look for information about the firm, and therefore can lead to an (potentially destabilizing) illusion of knowledge.
La prédiction de la faillite des entreprises fait l ' objet de nombreux travaux empiriques , depuis une trentaine d ' années. Elle se fonde sur l ' analyse économique et financière d ' entreprises défaillantes et d ' entreprises non défaillantes , afin de déterminer les variables , principalement comptables , qui distinguent au mieux les deux catégories de firmes. Nous proposons un état des lieux afin de rendre compte de l ' efficacité relative des différentes méthodes de classification utilisées. Dans ce but , nous exposons la démarche commune tout en mettant en évidence les différentes modalités d ' application empirique. Nous présentons le principe des techniques disponibles et une comparaison de leur performance , en mettant l ' accent , de manière non exhaustive , à la fois sur les études fondatrices et sur les études les plus récentes. Mots-clés : prévision , faillite d ' entreprise , analyse financière Abstract A Review of Business Failure Prediction Based on Financial Analysis of the Firm Many studies of business failure prediction have been carried out in the last thirty years or so. Prediction is based on an economic and financial analysis of failing and non-failing firms with the aim of determining the variables , mainly of an accounting nature , that best distinguish the two categories. The purpose of this review is to assess the relative effectiveness of the different classification methods employed. To that end we identify the common elements while highlighting the different ways in which they are applied empirically. We describe the principle of the available techniques and compare their performance , focusing non-exhaustively on both the founding studies and on more recent research .
This paper reviews the literature on corporate disclosure. Policymakers often support corporate disclosure but more contrasted views have emerged in the academic literature, showing that even if disclosure can actually benefits to shareholders, it is costly and it may trigger pernicious effects. Disclosing information is expensive (communication and audit costs, competitors access strategic information, and induced managers' suboptimal behavior). It also generates informational costs, as firms can disclose false, manipulated, too complex or too extensive information. And disclosure can reduce actors' incentives to look for information about the firm, and therefore can lead to an (potentially destabilizing) illusion of knowledge.
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