Financial Data for Paper Default Forecasting

The files stored here are : 1) raw data in Excel (Name : Financial Data of all firms.xlsx) , 2) source code (in Python), name "ensemble_learning.ipynb and 3) Read Me file associated with the Source code---all were used to support the research paper " Forecasting China Bond Default with Severe Class-Imbalanced Data: A Simple Learning Model with Causal Inference " , submitted to Economic Modeling. i) The majority of the raw data were sourced from East Money, one major financial data vendor in China; Some variables were directly taken from the raw data (e.g. standard financial metrics); some were computed ones. All are organized and stored in the Excel files attached ii) The Python code takes the data file as inputs, with each column being the