Predicting multilateral trade credit risks: comparisons of Logit and Fuzzy Logic models using ROC curve analysis
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Introduction and background to research
In recent years, intensified market competition in international trade has led to letter of credit (L/C) being replaced by open account (O/A). For exporters, however, sales on credit have greatly increased the amount of their foreign receivables and thus have had a severe impact on the operational risks, causing problems such as difficulties in capital turnover, fluctuations in exchange rate, bad debts, and decrease of profits due to the de facto discounts. The bad debt risk generated from
An overview of FL
Unlike conventional methods that entail an understanding of a system, exact equations, and precise mathematical values, FL incorporates an alternative way of thinking and reasoning, which allows anticipating or modeling the complex problem domain using a higher level of vagueness via our knowledge and experience. One of the characteristics of FL is its ability to be both linguistically tractable and mathematically sound. It resembles human decision-making with its ability to work from
Research design
In this section, we discuss our data sources, sample selection criteria, and variable selection process. The research design is depicted in Fig. 1.
Statistical results of variables
The statistics of skewness, kurtosis, and Kolmogorov–Smirnov Z indicate that the majority of variables, except FS5, FS6, FS9, FS10, FS15, BM2, IC3, and MF2, clearly violate the normality assumption. For the Mann–Whitney non-parametric test statistic, the dispersion of the two datasets or rather the homogeneity of the variance–covariance matrices is not the same.
Bartlett's Sphericity test statistic reveals statistically significant interrelations within the 36 raw variables (p-value=0.04).
Conclusions
Employing pooled data of 3344 listed firms from seven Asia-Pacific countries, this is the first empirical study to classify and predict trade credit risks in the international trade context. In addition, this paper extends previous work by applying ROC curve analysis to compare the model performance of Logit to that of FL. We are unaware of any other paper that has discussed the application of ROC curve analysis in the business and finance literature. Given the growing importance of
Acknowledgements
Financial support from the Taiwanese National Science Council, through Projects NSC 91-2626-H-150-001 and NSC 92-2626-H-150-002, is gratefully acknowledged.
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