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Applying a probabilistic neural network to hotel bankruptcy prediction
 
     
     Applying a probabilistic neural network to hotel bankruptcy prediction
     


Autor(es):
Fernández Gámez, Manuel Angel
Universidad de Málaga. Spain
Callejón Gil, Angela
Universidad de Malaga. Spain
Cisneros Ruiz, Ana José
Universidad de Málaga. Spain


Periódico: Tourism & Management Studies

Fonte: Revista Encontros Científicos - Tourism & Management Studies; Vol 12, No 1 (2016); 40-52

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Resumo: Using a probabilistic neural network and a set of financial and non-financial variables, this study seeks to improve the ability of the existing bankruptcy prediction models in the hotel industry. Our aim is to construct a hotel bankruptcy prediction model that provides high accuracy, using information sufficiently distant from the bankruptcy situation, and which is able to determine the sensitivity of the explanatory variables. Based on a sample of Spanish hotels that went bankrupt between 2005 and 2012, empirical results indicate that using information nearer to bankruptcy (one and two years prior), the most relevant variable is EBITDA to Current Liabilities, but using information further from bankruptcy (three years prior), Return on Assets is the best predictor of bankruptcy.