Abstract
This study contributes to the literature by evaluating the ability of Altman’s Z”-score model to predict the economic distress of 12 Kazakh banks over the period 2008–2014. The original Z”-score model with a cut-off point implied by Altman (2005) produced a prediction accuracy ratio of 44.05% and correctly classifies 76.19% of the observations as an economically distressed group. This study then re-estimates the model using three approaches, namely, the “leave-one-out”, Direct, and Wilks’ methods, and identifies new, optimal cut-off points for the re-estimated models. The re-estimated models, together with the new, optimal cut-off points, improved the prediction accuracy ratio to 70% and correctly classified over 90% of the observations originally assigned to the economically distressed group. The results imply that the Kazakh banking regulator and other market participants could use Altman’s Z”-score model to detect economically distressed banks.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Banking Resilience and Global Financial Stability |
Editors | Sabri Boubaker, Marwa Elnahass |
Publisher | World Scientific Publishing Co. |
Chapter | 13 |
Pages | 347–373 |
Number of pages | 27 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-80061-433-8 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-80061-431-4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Feb 2024 |
Externally published | Yes |
Cite this
Salina, A., Zhang, X., Jiao, T., & Hassan, O. (2024). The Ability of Altman’s Z”-score Model to Detect the Economic Distress of Kazakh Banks. In S. Boubaker, & M. Elnahass (Eds.), Banking Resilience and Global Financial Stability (pp. 347–373). World Scientific Publishing Co.. https://doi.org/10.1142/9781800614321_0013