Can small sample dataset be used for efficient internet loan credit risk assessment? Evidence from online peer to peer lending

Lean Yu () and Xiaoming Zhang

Finance Research Letters, 2021, vol. 38, issue C

Abstract: The emerging online peer to peer (P2P) lending platforms have only a small number of samples in the early stage, it is thus unable to conduct an efficient credit risk assessment on internet loan applicants. In order to solve the sample shortage issue, a virtual sample generation (VSG) methodology integrating multi-distribution mega-trend-diffusion (MD-MTD) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is proposed for internet loan credit risk evaluation with small samples. The empirical results indicate that the proposed VSG methodology can greatly help to improve performance of the internet loan credit risk evaluation with small sample datasets.

Keywords: Peer to peer lending; Small sample; Bootstrapping; mega-trend-diffusion; Particle swarm optimization; Virtual sample generation; Internet loan credit risk evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2020.101521

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