Scoring by usage

Scoring by usage

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Article ID: iaor20021253
Country: United Kingdom
Volume: 52
Issue: 9
Start Page Number: 997
End Page Number: 1006
Publication Date: Sep 2001
Journal: Journal of the Operational Research Society
Authors: , ,
Keywords: credit scoring
Abstract:

This paper aims to discover whether the predictive accuracy of a new applicant scoring model for a credit card can be improved by estimating separate scoring models for applicants who are predicted to have high or low usage of the card. Two models are estimated. First we estimate a model to explain the desired usage of a card, and second we estimate separately two further scoring models, one for those applicants whose usage is predicted to be high, and one for those for whom it is predicted to be low. The desired usage model is a two-stage Heckman model to take into account the fact that the observed usage of accepted applicants is constrained by their credit limit. Thus a model of the determinants of the credit limit, and one of usage, are both estimated using Heckman's ML estimator. We find a large number of variables to be correlated with desired usage. We also find that the two stage scoring methodology gives only very marginal improvements over a single stage scoring model, that we are able to predict a greater percentage of bad payers for low users than for high users and a greater percentage of good payers for high users than for low users.

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