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Przydatność danych jakościowych w modelach prognostycznych kredytów konsumpcyjnych dla osób prywatnych
Applicability of Qualitative Data in Forecasting Models of Consumption Loans for Private Persons

Author(s): Robert Skikiewicz
Subject(s): National Economy, Policy, planning, forecast and speculation, Financial Markets
Published by: Instytut Badań Rynku, Konsumpcji i Koniunktur
Keywords: forecasting; consumption loans; ADL models;

Summary/Abstract: In this research article, there was made an assessment of applicability of qualitative data stemming from business tendency survey conducted by the National Bank of Poland among chairmen of credit committees. The indicators obtained on the basis of the above-mentioned survey results proved high importance as independent variables in autoregressive models with distributed lags (ADL) estimated for consumption loans for private persons. The prove is both the higher fit of model data to empirical data in the case of ADL models as well as the higher accuracy of obtained forecasts compared to the autoregressive model.

  • Issue Year: 2/2014
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 57-68
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish