2018
DOI: 10.3390/g9040082
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Determinants of Borrowers’ Default in P2P Lending under Consideration of the Loan Risk Class

Abstract: We study the determinants of borrowers’ default in P2P lending with a new data set consisting of 70,673 loan observations from the Lending Club. Previous research identified a number of default determining variables but did not distinguish between different loan risk levels. We define four loan risk classes and test the significance of the default determining variables within each loan risk class. Our findings suggest that the significance of most variables depends on the loan risk class. Only a few variables … Show more

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“…Regulation of loan-based crowd funding could connecting investors crowd funding with entrepreneurs through transparency and transactions are fast and almost hassle-free in documentation [18]. Loan-based crowd funding is a digital service in the new financial sector, the service provider platform connects borrowers and lenders, so that loanbased crowd funding This is a threat to traditional banks because of the convenience and advantages it offers [19].…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Regulation of loan-based crowd funding could connecting investors crowd funding with entrepreneurs through transparency and transactions are fast and almost hassle-free in documentation [18]. Loan-based crowd funding is a digital service in the new financial sector, the service provider platform connects borrowers and lenders, so that loanbased crowd funding This is a threat to traditional banks because of the convenience and advantages it offers [19].…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The problem of choosing factors to produce a reliable credit score is a subject of many studies [8], [9]. Various factors are used to assess the creditworthiness and probability of default of the loan obligations, such as gender, age, marital status, education, employment length, experience, income [10] income, interest rate, purpose of the loan [11] indebtedness, term of the loan [12], total assets of the borrower [13] customer behavior before and after approval of the loan [14].…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Some researchers selected features using statistical methods (Polena & Regner, ) or information gains (Chen, ) before training machine learning models. The selected features are as follows: loan amount, debt‐to‐income ratio, home ownership, delinquencies, etc.…”
Section: Related Workmentioning
confidence: 99%