We propose a general methodology framework for eXplainable credit scoring to provide interpretability of each individual variable and measure fairness. Specifically, it is able to detect important variables and quantifies their individual impact on a firm’s credit classification via the...

Financial technologies, boosted by the availability of machine learning models, are expanding in all areas of finance: from payments (peer to peer lending) to asset management (robot advisors) to payments (blockchain coins). Machine learning models typically achieve a high accuracy at the...

Typically, inequality indices appear both as basic concepts in the analysis of welfare economics and as technical tools applied to income or other transferable attributes. Several findings in such research fields are provided by the standard Gini coefficient, traditionally introduced for incomes...

According to different typologies of activity and priority, risks can assume diverse meanings and it can be assessed in different ways. In general risk is measured in terms of a probability combination of an event (frequency) and its consequence (impact). To estimate the frequency and the impact...

Building predictive models for genomic mining requires feature selection, as an essential preliminary step to reduce the large number of variable available. Feature selection is a process to select a subset of features which is the most essential for the intended tasks such as classification,...

We consider the problem of estimating the lifetime value of customers, when a large number of features are present in the data. In order to measure lifetime value we use survival analysis models to estimate customer tenure. In such a context, a number of classical modelling challenges arise. We...

The paper presents a new methodology, based on tensor decomposition, to map dynamic trade networks and to assess their strength on spreading economic fluctuations at different periods of time in Asia. Using the monthly merchandise import and export data across 33 Asian economies, together with...