Whose balance sheet is this? : neural networks for banks' pattern recognition

Borradores de Economia
Number: 
959
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
C45, C53, G21, M41
Keywords: 
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy

The balance sheet is a snapshot that portraits the financial position of a firm at a specific point of time. Under the reasonable assumption that the financial position of a firm is unique and representative, we use a basic artificial neural network patte