This paper evaluates the presence of racial disparities in the issuance of consumer credit. Using a unique and proprietary database of credit histories from a major credit bureau, this paper links locationbased information on race with individual credit les. After controlling for the in uence of such other place-speci c factors as crime, housing vacancy rates, and general population demographic...

decision trees as one of the data mining techniques, is used in credit scoring of bank customers. the main problem is the construction of decision trees in that they can classify customers optimally. this paper proposes an appropriate model based on genetic algorithm for credit scoring of banks customers in order to offer credit facilities to each class. genetic algorithm can help in credit sco...

credit enhancements are methods that are used in structured finance for promoting the credit quality of financial instruments. one of the most important mechanisms for improving the credit quality is tranching financial instruments. this mechanism is mentioned as a structural and internal credit enhancement. tranching decreases financing costs and improves the quality of financial instruments. ...

The study was designed to analyze credit receipt and enterprise performance by small scale agro based enterprises in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. A multistage sampling technique was adopted in selecting 264 agro based enterprises and 96 agro based enterprises that accessed informal and formal credit respectively. The Heckman model was used to examine the factors affecting amount of inform...

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De Montjoye et al. (Reports, 30 January 2015, p. 536) claimed that most individuals can be reidentified from a deidentified transaction database and that anonymization mechanisms are not effective against reidentification. We demonstrate that anonymization can be performed by techniques well established in the literature.