Economic benefit of powerful credit scoring

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 851-873

  Blöchlinger, Andreas ^a   Leippold, Markus ^b  

^a Credit Suisse group   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bank loan pricing; Credit scoring; Discriminatory power; Receiver operating characteristic (ROC)

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644806010     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2005.07.014     Document Type: Article

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