Härdle, Wolfgang; Moro, Rouslan; Schäfer, Dorothea - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 2007
This paper proposes a rating methodology that is based on a non-linear classification method, the support vector machine, and a non-parametric technique for mapping rating scores into probabilities of default. We give an introduction to underlying statistical models and represent the results of...