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| Title: | | Multi-period credit default prediction with time-varying covariates  |
| Authors: | | Orth, Walter |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion papers in statistics and econometrics 3/11 |
| Abstract: | | In credit default prediction models, the need to deal with time-varying covariates often arises. For instance, in the context of corporate default prediction a typical approach is to estimate a hazard model by regressing the hazard rate on time-varying covariates like balance sheet or stock market variables. If the prediction horizon covers multiple periods, this leads to the problem that the future evolution of these covariates is unknown. Consequently, some authors have proposed a framework that augments the prediction problem by covariate forecasting models. In this paper, we present simple alternatives for multi-period prediction that avoid the burden to specify and estimate a model for the covariate processes. In an application to North American public firms, we show that the proposed models deliver high out-of-sample predictive accuracy. |
| Subjects: | | credit default multi-period predictions hazard models panel data out-of-sample tests |
| JEL: | | C41 C53 C58 G17 G32 G33 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Discussion Papers in Statistics and Econometrics, Seminar für Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistik, Universität Köln
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