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Modelling sovereign credit ratings: neural networks versus ordered profit

Modelling sovereign credit ratings: neural networks versus ordered profit
Modelling sovereign credit ratings: neural networks versus ordered profit
Sovereign credit ratings are becoming increasingly important both within a financial regulatory context and as a necessary prerequisite for the development of emerging capital markets. Using a comprehensive dataset of rating agencies and countries over the period 1989–1999, this paper demonstrates that artificial neural networks (ANN) represent a superior technology for calibrating and predicting sovereign ratings relative to ordered probit modelling, which has been considered by the previous literature to be the most successful econometric approach. ANN have been applied to classification problems with great success over a wide range of applications where there is an absence of a precise theoretical model to underpin the relationships in the data. The results for sovereign credit ratings presented here corroborate other researchers' findings that ANN are highly effective classifiers.
0957-4174
415-425
Bennell, Julia A.
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Crabbe, David
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Thomas, Stephen
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Ap Gwilym, Owain
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Crabbe, David
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Thomas, Stephen
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Bennell, Julia A., Crabbe, David, Thomas, Stephen and Ap Gwilym, Owain (2006) Modelling sovereign credit ratings: neural networks versus ordered profit. Expert Systems with Applications, 30 (3), 415-425. (doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2005.10.002).

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Sovereign credit ratings are becoming increasingly important both within a financial regulatory context and as a necessary prerequisite for the development of emerging capital markets. Using a comprehensive dataset of rating agencies and countries over the period 1989–1999, this paper demonstrates that artificial neural networks (ANN) represent a superior technology for calibrating and predicting sovereign ratings relative to ordered probit modelling, which has been considered by the previous literature to be the most successful econometric approach. ANN have been applied to classification problems with great success over a wide range of applications where there is an absence of a precise theoretical model to underpin the relationships in the data. The results for sovereign credit ratings presented here corroborate other researchers' findings that ANN are highly effective classifiers.

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Published date: 2006

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Local EPrints ID: 35761
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/35761
ISSN: 0957-4174
PURE UUID: 6fd049a8-1a55-4fa0-80be-39be1fc03356

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Date deposited: 22 May 2006
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 07:54

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Author: Julia A. Bennell
Author: David Crabbe
Author: Stephen Thomas
Author: Owain Ap Gwilym

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