Economic policy uncertainty and bankruptcy filings

Elena Fedorova, Svetlana Ledyaeva, Pavel Drogovoz and Alexandr Nevredinov

International Review of Financial Analysis, 2022, vol. 82, issue C

Abstract: Applying machine learning techniques to predict bankruptcy in the sample of French, Italian, Russian and Spanish firms, the study demonstrates that the inclusion of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) indicator into bankruptcy prediction models notably increases their accuracy. This effect is more pronounced when we use novel Twitter-based version of EPU index instead of original news-based index. We further compare the prediction accuracy of machine learning techniques and conclude that stacking ensemble method outperforms (though marginally) machine learning methods, which are more commonly used for bankruptcy prediction, such as single classifiers and bagging.

Keywords: economic policy uncertainty, bankruptcy, firm, machine learning, stacking, bagging (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.irfa.2022.102174

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