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Corporate credit default models: a mixed logit approach

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  • Martin Kukuk
  • Michael Rönnberg

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The popular logit model is extended to allow for varying stochastic parameters (mixed logit) and non-linearities of regressor variables while analysing a cross-sectional sample of German corporate credit defaults. With respect to economic interpretability and goodness of probability forecasts according to disriminatory power and calibration, empirical results favor the extended specifications. The mixed logit model is particularly useful with respect to interpretability. However, probability forecasts based on the mixed logit model are not distinctively preferred to extended logit models allowing for non-linearities in variables. Further potential improvements with the help of the mixed logit approach for panel data are shown in a Monte Carlo study. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2013

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  • Martin Kukuk & Michael Rönnberg, 2013. "Corporate credit default models: a mixed logit approach," Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Springer, vol. 40(3), pages 467-483, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:rqfnac:v:40:y:2013:i:3:p:467-483
    DOI: 10.1007/s11156-012-0281-4
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    Credit default models; Binary response models; Model specification; Estimation of probabilities of default; Mixed logit; C52; G24;
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    JEL classification:

    • C52 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Model Evaluation, Validation, and Selection
    • G24 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Investment Banking; Venture Capital; Brokerage

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