Predicting SME’s default: Are their websites informative?
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Abstract We propose the use of online indicators, scraped from firms’ websites, to predict default risk for a sample Spanish firms via nonlinear discriminant analysis and logistic regression model.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Economics Letters
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1873-7374', '0165-1765']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2021.109888