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Machine learning in bankruptcy prediction : utilizing machine learning for improved bankruptcy predictions in the Norwegian market with an emphasis on financial, management and sector statements

Meese, Eystein Nordby; Viken, Torbjørn
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2019
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In this thesis, we create a new multi-year model for predicting bankruptcies in the Norwegian

market. Our emphasis is on utilizing all parts of the financial statements and related information,

rather than previously utilized ratios, to predict whether or not companies go bankrupt within

the next three years.

Our analysis is based on a database that stems from a collaboration of previous research from

the Norwegian School of Economics. After thorough cleaning, our final dataset contains 3 327

405 observations with 159 features related to financial, management and sector statements.

We perform our analysis utilizing nine models based on nine different machine learning

techniques. For evaluation, we optimize our models toward the percentage of correct bankruptcy

predictions.

Our best model is Random Forest, which yields an overall accuracy and a class independent

accuracy of 78%, where the model is able to correctly predict 4/5 bankrupt firms and 4/5

non-bankrupt firms ahead of time. The results we obtain from Neural Network and Mixture

Discriminant Analysis are slightly inferior, while the remaining models perform even worse.

Our Random Forest model outperforms other models built on a class distribution that is highly

imbalanced. Furthermore, other studies often use ratios as features, and we find that our

model assigns considerable importance to some of the individual components of their ratios,

in particular, components related to liquidity. We also find components and features that are

deemed important which have been neglected in the past ratio-focused research, such as cash

flows, sector features and board features.

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