People

Edward Altman

Edward Altman

Formal First Name
Edward
Dates
6/5/1941 - present

Edward Altman is the Max L. Heine Professor of Finance, Emeritus at the NYU Stern School of Business. He is a world-renowned expert on corporate bankruptcy, distressed debt, high yield bonds, and credit risk analysis. Altman has published and or at least two-dozen books and more than 160 articles in scholarly finance, accounting, and economic journals. He is the creator of the famous Altman-Z-Score model for bankruptcy prediction of companies globally.