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Benford's law and Chinese banks' non-performing loans

Benford's law states that the leading significant digits in real-world data sets, provided the data span several orders of magnitude, are not normally uniformly distributed. Deviations from this law may indicate human intervention, even fraud. The data on Chinese banks' non-performing loans has sometimes deviated from Benford's law. Up to 2012, the frequency of ones as leading significant digits was lower than predicted by Benford's law. Surprisingly, the number of ones well exceeded the expected level for large and government-owned banks during 2015–2018.

ISBN
978-952-323-308-9
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: BOFIT Discussion Papers ; No. 25/2019

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Specific Distributions; Specific Statistics
Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Kauko, Karlo
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Bank of Finland, Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT)
(wo)
Helsinki
(wann)
2019

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Kauko, Karlo
  • Bank of Finland, Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT)

Entstanden

  • 2019

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