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Dr Xin Zhang's Outputs (3)

Does spatial location affect business liquidations? (2022)
Journal Article
MAKROPOULOS, A., WEIR, C. and ZHANG, X. 2022. Does spatial location affect business liquidations? International journal of computational economics and econometrics [online], 12(1-2): spatial analysis and interaction in economics and econometrics; data and modelling for sustainable spatial systems, pages 139-157. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJCEE.2022.120503

Current studies in aggregate business liquidations have paid little attention to the potential importance of firms geographical (spatial) location. There is some evidence of spatial concentration of economic activity in certain geographical across Eu... Read More about Does spatial location affect business liquidations?.

An assessment of the financial soundness of the Kazakh banks. (2020)
Journal Article
SALINA, A.P., ZHANG, X. and HASSAN, O.A.G. 2021. An assessment of the financial soundness of the Kazakh banks. Asian journal of accounting research [online], 6(1), pages 23-37. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/AJAR-03-2019-0022

The contribution of the banking industry to the financial crisis of 2007/8 has raised public concerns about the financial soundness of banks around the world, with many countries still suffering the backlogs of this crisis. The continuous emergence o... Read More about An assessment of the financial soundness of the Kazakh banks..

An analysis of the determinants of failure processes in UK SMEs. (2020)
Journal Article
MAKROPOULOS, A., WEIR, C. and ZHANG, X. 2020. An analysis of the determinants of failure processes in UK SMEs. Journal of small business and enterprise development [online], 27(3), pages 405-426. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/JSBED-07-2019-0223

Purpose: This paper has two purposes. First, it evaluates the extent to which different failure processes are present in failed UK SMEs, by considering non-financial metrics including director characteristics, in addition to the financial ones. Secon... Read More about An analysis of the determinants of failure processes in UK SMEs..