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Why do banks fail? An investigation via text mining

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  • Hanh Hong Le

    (RMIT University Vietnam)

  • Jean-Laurent Viviani

    (CREM - Centre de recherche en économie et management - UNICAEN - Université de Caen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - UR - Université de Rennes - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Fitriya Fauzi

    (RMIT University Vietnam)

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the material loss review published by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) on 98 failed banks from 2008 to 2015. The text mining techniques via machine learning, i.e. bag of words, document clustering, and topic modeling, are employed for the investigation. The pre-processing step of text cleaning is first performed prior to the analysis. In comparison with traditional methods using financial ratios, our study generates actionable insights extracted from semi-structured textual data, i.e. the FDIC's reports. Our text analytics suggests that to prevent from being a failure; banks should beware of loans, board management, supervisory process, the concentration of acquisition, development, and construction (ADC), and commercial real estate (CRE). In addition, the primary reasons that US banks went failure from 2008 to 2015 are explained by two primary topics, i.e. loan and management.

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  • Hanh Hong Le & Jean-Laurent Viviani & Fitriya Fauzi, 2023. "Why do banks fail? An investigation via text mining," Post-Print hal-04223185, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04223185
    DOI: 10.1080/23322039.2023.2251272
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    Keywords

    text mining; US failed bank; BoW; k-means; topic modeling; hierarchies clustering; G00; G21;
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    JEL classification:

    • G00 - Financial Economics - - General - - - General
    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages

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