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Press news and social media in credit risk assessment: the experience of Banca d’Italia’s In-house Credit Assessment System

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  • Giulio Gariano

    (Bank of Italy)

  • Gianluca Viggiano

    (Bank of Italy)

Abstract

This article uses press news and Twitter messages to improve the predictive power of the ICAS rating model of Banca d’Italia. We construct two credit sentiment indicators that display a good discriminating power and marginally increase the discriminating power of the ICAS. Scores based on press news prove more effective than those based on Twitter messages.

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  • Giulio Gariano & Gianluca Viggiano, 2022. "Press news and social media in credit risk assessment: the experience of Banca d’Italia’s In-house Credit Assessment System," Temi di discussione (Economic working papers) 24, Bank of Italy, Economic Research and International Relations Area.
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    Keywords

    credit sentiment; corporate default; social networks; natural language processing;
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    JEL classification:

    • G30 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - General
    • C58 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Financial Econometrics

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