Beyond Statistics: The Economic Content of Risk Scores

"Big data" and statistical techniques to score potential transactions have transformed insurance and credit markets. In this paper, we observe that these widely-used statistical scores summarize a much richer heterogeneity, and may be endogenous to the context in which they get applied. We...

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Main Authors: Einav, Liran, Finkelstein, Amy, Kluender, Raymond Peter, Schrimpf, Paul Thomas
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Economic Association 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/109558
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