Abstract:Ensuring and disseminating high-quality data is crucial for central banks to adequately support monetary analysis and the related decision-making process. In this paper we develop a machine learning process for identifying errors in banks' supervisory reports on loans to the private sector employed in the Bank of Italy's statistical production of Monetary and Financial Institutions' (MFI) Balance Sheet Items (BSI). In particular, we model a "Revisions Adjusted -Quantile Regression Random Forest" (RA-QRRF) algo… Show more
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