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Random Survival Forests Models for SME Credit Risk Measurement
Authors:Dean Fantazzini  Silvia Figini
Institution:(1) Department of Statistics and Applied Economics, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
Abstract:This paper extends the existing literature on empirical research in the field of credit risk default for Small Medium Enterprizes (SMEs). We propose a non-parametric approach based on Random Survival Forests (RSF) and we compare its performance with a standard logit model. To the authors’ knowledge, no studies in the area of credit risk default for SMEs have used a variety of statistical methodologies to test the reliability of their predictions and to compare their performance against one another. As for the in-sample results, we find that our non-parametric model performs much better that the classical logit model. As for the out-of-sample performances, the evidence is just the opposite, and the logit performs better than the RSF model. We explain this evidence by showing how error in the estimates of default probabilities can affect classification error when the estimates are used in a classification rule.
Keywords:Random survival trees  Credit risk  Default probability  Loss functions  Classification
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