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most citedThe Value of Big Data for Credit Scoring: Enhancing Financial Inclusion using Mobile Phone Data and Social Network Analytics

218 citations · 811 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.LG2020★ 58 cited

Improving healthcare access management by predicting patient no-show behaviour

David Barrera Ferro, Sally Brailsford, Cristián Bravo +1

Low attendance levels in medical appointments have been associated with poor health outcomes and efficiency problems for service providers. To address this problem, healthcare mana…

cs.SI2020★ 54 cited

Multilayer Network Analysis for Improved Credit Risk Prediction

María Óskarsdóttir, Cristián Bravo

We present a multilayer network model for credit risk assessment. Our model accounts for multiple connections between borrowers (such as their geographic location and their economi…

q-fin.GN2020★ 66 cited

Super-App Behavioral Patterns in Credit Risk Models: Financial, Statistical and Regulatory Implications

Luisa Roa, Alejandro Correa-Bahnsen, Gabriel Suarez +3

In this paper we present the impact of alternative data that originates from an app-based marketplace, in contrast to traditional bureau data, upon credit scoring models. These alt…

cs.SI2020★ 7 cited

Evolution of Credit Risk Using a Personalized Pagerank Algorithm for Multilayer Networks

Cristián Bravo, María Óskarsdóttir

In this paper we present a novel algorithm to study the evolution of credit risk across complex multilayer networks. Pagerank-like algorithms allow for the propagation of an influe…

cs.LG2020★ 130 cited

The value of text for small business default prediction: A deep learning approach

Matthew Stevenson, Christophe Mues, Cristián Bravo

Compared to consumer lending, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (mSME) credit risk modelling is particularly challenging, as, often, the same sources of information are not availa…

cs.SI2020★ 218 cited

The Value of Big Data for Credit Scoring: Enhancing Financial Inclusion using Mobile Phone Data and Social Network Analytics

María Óskarsdóttir, Cristián Bravo, Carlos Sarraute +2

Credit scoring is without a doubt one of the oldest applications of analytics. In recent years, a multitude of sophisticated classification techniques have been developed to improv…

cs.SI2020★ 14 cited

Credit Scoring for Good: Enhancing Financial Inclusion with Smartphone-Based Microlending

María Óskarsdóttir, Cristián Bravo, Carlos Sarraute +2

Globally, two billion people and more than half of the poorest adults do not use formal financial services. Consequently, there is increased emphasis on developing financial techno…

cs.SI2020★ 108 cited

Social Network Analytics for Churn Prediction in Telco: Model Building, Evaluation and Network Architecture

María Óskarsdóttir, Cristián Bravo, Wouter Verbeke +3

Social network analytics methods are being used in the telecommunication industry to predict customer churn with great success. In particular it has been shown that relational lear…

cs.SI2020★ 17 cited

A Comparative Study of Social Network Classifiers for Predicting Churn in the Telecommunication Industry

Maria Óskarsdóttir, Cristián Bravo, Wouter Verbeke +3

Relational learning in networked data has been shown to be effective in a number of studies. Relational learners, composed of relational classifiers and collective inference method…