Estimating the Acceptance Probabilities of Consumer Loan Offers in an Online Loan Comparison and Brokerage Platform
It is widely recognised that the ability of e-commerce businesses to predict conversion probability, i.e., acceptance probability, is critically important in today’s business environment. While the issue of conversion prediction based on browsing data in various e-commerce websites is broadly analys...
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| author | Renatas Špicas Airidas Neifaltas Rasa Kanapickienė Greta Keliuotytė-Staniulėnienė Deimantė Vasiliauskaitė |
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| description | It is widely recognised that the ability of e-commerce businesses to predict conversion probability, i.e., acceptance probability, is critically important in today’s business environment. While the issue of conversion prediction based on browsing data in various e-commerce websites is broadly analysed in scientific literature, there is a lack of studies covering this topic in the context of online loan comparison and brokerage (OLCB) platforms. It can be argued that due to the inseparable relationship between the operation of these platforms and credit risk, the behaviour of consumers in making loan decisions differs from typical consumer behaviour in choosing non-risk-related products. In this paper, we aim to develop and propose statistical acceptance prediction models of loan offers in OLCB platforms. For modelling, we use diverse data obtained from an operating OLCB platform, including on customer (i.e., borrower) behaviour and demographics, financial variables, and characteristics of the loan offers presented to the borrowers/customers. To build the models, we experiment with various classifiers including logistic regression, random forest, XGboost, artificial neural networks, and support vector machines. Computational experiments show that our models can predict conversion with good performance in terms of area under the curve (AUC) score. The models presented are suitable for use in a loan comparison and brokerage platform for real-time process optimisation purposes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-97fa1e139ebe4d0f81429b99030efab72023-11-18T21:14:59ZengMDPI AGRisks2227-90912023-07-0111713810.3390/risks11070138Estimating the Acceptance Probabilities of Consumer Loan Offers in an Online Loan Comparison and Brokerage PlatformRenatas Špicas0Airidas Neifaltas1Rasa Kanapickienė2Greta Keliuotytė-Staniulėnienė3Deimantė Vasiliauskaitė4Department of Finance, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vilnius University, 10222 Vilnius, LithuaniaDepartment of Finance, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vilnius University, 10222 Vilnius, LithuaniaDepartment of Finance, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vilnius University, 10222 Vilnius, LithuaniaDepartment of Finance, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vilnius University, 10222 Vilnius, LithuaniaDepartment of Finance, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vilnius University, 10222 Vilnius, LithuaniaIt is widely recognised that the ability of e-commerce businesses to predict conversion probability, i.e., acceptance probability, is critically important in today’s business environment. While the issue of conversion prediction based on browsing data in various e-commerce websites is broadly analysed in scientific literature, there is a lack of studies covering this topic in the context of online loan comparison and brokerage (OLCB) platforms. It can be argued that due to the inseparable relationship between the operation of these platforms and credit risk, the behaviour of consumers in making loan decisions differs from typical consumer behaviour in choosing non-risk-related products. In this paper, we aim to develop and propose statistical acceptance prediction models of loan offers in OLCB platforms. For modelling, we use diverse data obtained from an operating OLCB platform, including on customer (i.e., borrower) behaviour and demographics, financial variables, and characteristics of the loan offers presented to the borrowers/customers. To build the models, we experiment with various classifiers including logistic regression, random forest, XGboost, artificial neural networks, and support vector machines. Computational experiments show that our models can predict conversion with good performance in terms of area under the curve (AUC) score. The models presented are suitable for use in a loan comparison and brokerage platform for real-time process optimisation purposes.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9091/11/7/138conversion predictiondigital loan brokeragemachine learningbinary models |
| spellingShingle | Renatas Špicas Airidas Neifaltas Rasa Kanapickienė Greta Keliuotytė-Staniulėnienė Deimantė Vasiliauskaitė Estimating the Acceptance Probabilities of Consumer Loan Offers in an Online Loan Comparison and Brokerage Platform Risks conversion prediction digital loan brokerage machine learning binary models |
| title | Estimating the Acceptance Probabilities of Consumer Loan Offers in an Online Loan Comparison and Brokerage Platform |
| title_full | Estimating the Acceptance Probabilities of Consumer Loan Offers in an Online Loan Comparison and Brokerage Platform |
| title_fullStr | Estimating the Acceptance Probabilities of Consumer Loan Offers in an Online Loan Comparison and Brokerage Platform |
| title_full_unstemmed | Estimating the Acceptance Probabilities of Consumer Loan Offers in an Online Loan Comparison and Brokerage Platform |
| title_short | Estimating the Acceptance Probabilities of Consumer Loan Offers in an Online Loan Comparison and Brokerage Platform |
| title_sort | estimating the acceptance probabilities of consumer loan offers in an online loan comparison and brokerage platform |
| topic | conversion prediction digital loan brokerage machine learning binary models |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9091/11/7/138 |
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