Predicting sovereign debt distress across 49 economies at AUROC 0.943
Gradient-boosted classifiers trained on macro-fiscal panel data from the IMF and World Bank, with out-of-sample validation designed to prevent look-ahead leakage. Distress risk concentrates in the interaction of short-term external debt with reserve adequacy, not in headline debt-to-GDP. Now being prepared for peer-reviewed submission.
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