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Blockchains, Real-Time Accounting and the Future of Credit Risk Modeling

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Summary, in English

In this paper (letter) I discuss how blockchains potentially could affect the way credit risk is modeled, and how the improved trust and timing associated with blockchain-enabled real-time accounting could improve default prediction. To demonstrate the (quite substantial) effect the change would have on well-known credit risk measures, a simple case-study compares Z-scores and Merton distances to default computed using typical accounting data of today to the same risk measures computed under a hypothetical future blockchain regime.

Publishing year

2016

Language

English

Publication/Series

Working Paper / Department of Economics, School of Economics and Management, Lund University

Issue

4

Document type

Working paper

Publisher

Department of Economics, Lund University

Topic

  • Economics

Status

Published