Research Article

A Meta-Path-Based Evaluation Method for Enterprise Credit Risk

Table 1

Summary of feature types used for SMEs credit risk evaluation.

WorkYearFeaturesFeature type

Edmister [4]197219 accounting ratiosFinancial information

Altman and Sabato [5]200717 accounting ratiosFinancial information

Chen et al. [23]2010Current liability, equity, asset, and closing stock priceFinancial information

Psillaki et al. [10]2010Preinterest, pretax operating surplus/total assets, tangible assets/total assets, intangible assets/total assets, net growth, firm size, and managers backgroundFinancial and nonfinancial information

Altman et al. [7]201331 accounting ratios and 10 credit related variablesFinancial and nonfinancial information

Hajek and Michalak [6]2013Enterprise size, enterprise reputation, profitability ratios, asset structure, business situation, market value ratios, and working experienceFinancial and nonfinancial information

Moro and Fink [13]2013Economic and social environment, enterprise characteristics, and characteristics of the relationships between the loan manager and the SME managerFinancial and nonfinancial information

Angilella and Mazzù [24]2015Intangible assets/fixed assets, R&D/sales, ROA, short-term debt/equity, cash/total asset, development risk, production risk, technological risk, and market riskQuantitative, financial, and nonfinancial information

Cultrera and Brédart [25]2016Current ratio, return on operating assets before depreciation, global degree of financial independence, proportion of gross value assed allocated to tax expenses, cash flow/total debt, business sector, enterprise size, and enterprise ageFinancial and nonfinancial information

Gupta and Gregoriou [26]2017EBITDATA, taxes/total assets, total liability/total assets, short-term debt/equity book value, market-to-book ratio, excess return, standard deviation of past three months daily return, and price per shareFinancial and nonfinancial information

Tsai and Wang [18]2017News informationTextual information

Letizia and Lillo [20]2017Enterprise payment relationRelational information

Tobback et al. [21]2017Enterprise common shareholders and directors’ relationRelational information

Yin et al. [19]2020Current ratio, quick ratio, debt asset ratio, receivables turnover ratio, total asset turnover, operating profit ratio, missing ratio, enterprise age, registered capital, enterprise location, number of shareholders, number of insured, number of patents, and enterprise legal judgmentFinancial, nonfinancial and textual information

Kou et al. [22]2020Basic enterprise information, managers/shareholders information, payment, and transactional informationFinancial, nonfinancial and relational information