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A New Hybrid Instance-Based Learning Model for Decision-Making in the P2P Lending Market

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  • Golnoosh Babaei

    (Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch)

  • Shahrooz Bamdad

    (Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch)

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Peer-to-Peer (P2P) lending has grown rapidly in the past years. Therefore, borrowers and lenders are provided with the opportunity of lending and borrowing independently of the banks. Lenders in the P2P lending market can share their total investment amount among different loans, so making a decision may be difficult for inexpert lenders. The aim of this study is to propose a novel decision-making framework in which instance-based learning as a lazy learning method and artificial neural networks as an eager learning approach are integrated. The proposed hybrid instance-based learning (HIBL) model has the ability to predict the return and risk of new loans and help investors to find the optimal portfolio. In order to check the effectiveness of our model, we use a real-world dataset from one of the most popular P2P lending marketplaces, namely Lending Club. Moreover, a comparison among our proposed model and a rating-based method reveals that the proposed HIBL model can improve investments in P2P lending.

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  • Golnoosh Babaei & Shahrooz Bamdad, 2021. "A New Hybrid Instance-Based Learning Model for Decision-Making in the P2P Lending Market," Computational Economics, Springer;Society for Computational Economics, vol. 57(1), pages 419-432, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:compec:v:57:y:2021:i:1:d:10.1007_s10614-020-10085-3
    DOI: 10.1007/s10614-020-10085-3
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