article published Jan Klobucnik author David Miersch author Sönke Sievers author 275 department This study proposes a simple theoretical framework that allows for assessing financial distress up to five years in advance. We jointly model financial distress by using two of its key driving factors: declining cash-generating ability and insufficient liquidity reserves. The model is based on stochastic processes and incorporates firm-level and industry-sector developments. A large-scale empirical implementation for US-listed firms over the period of 1980-2010 shows important improvements in the discriminatory accuracy and demonstrates incremental information content beyond state-of-the-art accounting and market-based prediction models. Consequently, this study might provide important ex ante warning signals for investors, regulators and practitioners. 2017 eng Financial distress predictionprobability of defaultaccounting informationstochastic processessimulation J. Klobucnik, D. Miersch, S. Sievers, SSRN Electronic Journal (2017). Klobucnik, Jan, David Miersch, and Sönke Sievers. “Predicting Early Warning Signals of Financial Distress: Theory and Empirical Evidence.” <i>SSRN Electronic Journal</i>, 2017. Klobucnik, J., Miersch, D., &#38; Sievers, S. (2017). Predicting Early Warning Signals of Financial Distress: Theory and Empirical Evidence. <i>SSRN Electronic Journal</i>. J. Klobucnik, D. Miersch, and S. Sievers, “Predicting Early Warning Signals of Financial Distress: Theory and Empirical Evidence,” <i>SSRN Electronic Journal</i>, 2017. Klobucnik J, Miersch D, Sievers S. Predicting Early Warning Signals of Financial Distress: Theory and Empirical Evidence. <i>SSRN Electronic Journal</i>. 2017. @article{Klobucnik_Miersch_Sievers_2017, title={Predicting Early Warning Signals of Financial Distress: Theory and Empirical Evidence}, journal={SSRN Electronic Journal}, author={Klobucnik, Jan and Miersch, David and Sievers, Sönke}, year={2017} } Klobucnik, Jan, et al. “Predicting Early Warning Signals of Financial Distress: Theory and Empirical Evidence.” <i>SSRN Electronic Journal</i>, 2017. 51992018-10-31T12:19:42Z2022-01-06T07:01:43Z