Bankruptcy prediction for Korean firms after the 1997 financial crisis: using a multiple criteria linear programming data mining approach

The main purpose of this paper is to evaluate the data mining applications, such as classification, which have been used in previous bankruptcy prediction studies and credit rating studies. Our study proposes a multiple criteria linear programming (MCLP) method to predict bankruptcy using Korean bankruptcy data after the 1997 financial crisis. The results, of the MCLP approach in our Korean bankruptcy prediction study, show that our method performs as well as traditional multiple discriminant analysis or logit analysis using only financial data. In addition, our model’s overall prediction accuracy is comparable to those of decision tree or support vector machine approaches. However, our results are not generalizable because our data are from a special situation in Korea.