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Do consumer internet behaviours provide incremental information to predict credit default risk?

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  • Wuqing Wu
  • Dongliang Xu
  • Yue Zhao
  • Xinhai Liu

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The peer-to-peer lending industry has experienced recent turmoil, posing risks to fintech companies and banks. Based on a random sample of 33,669 borrowers who had downloaded peer-to-peer lending platforms prior to submitting loan applications to a well-known fintech company, Du Xiaoman Financial (formerly Baidu Finance), this article evaluates the predictive power of borrowers’ internet behaviours on credit default risk. After controlling for borrowers’ basic characteristics that are widely used in academic research and enterprise practices, the coefficients of key factors selected from 3,100 variables are economically and statistically significant. The average Kolmogorov-Smirnov value of the prediction model calculated using the hold-out method is approximately 37.09%. The results remain robust in several additional analyses. This study indicates the importance of non-credit information, particularly borrowers’ internet behaviours, in supplementing borrowers’ credit records for both fintech companies and banks.

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  • Wuqing Wu & Dongliang Xu & Yue Zhao & Xinhai Liu, 2020. "Do consumer internet behaviours provide incremental information to predict credit default risk?," Economic and Political Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 8(4), pages 482-499, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:repsxx:v:8:y:2020:i:4:p:482-499
    DOI: 10.1080/20954816.2020.1759765
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    1. Tang, Xinyin & Feng, Chong & Zhu, Jianping & He, Minna, 2022. "How Can We Learn from Borrowers’ Online Behaviors? The Signal Effect of Borrowers’ Platform Involvement on Their Credit Risk," SocArXiv qga8j, Center for Open Science.
    2. Parminder Varma & Shivinder Nijjer & Kiran Sood & Simon Grima & Ramona Rupeika-Apoga, 2022. "Thematic Analysis of Financial Technology (Fintech) Influence on the Banking Industry," Risks, MDPI, vol. 10(10), pages 1-17, September.

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