We document that the
improvement in ex ante credit quality assessments that arises from
business credit information sharing is associated with lower realized default rates in the same geographic area. We also find that the coefficients of the control variables ARBaseline and GVA_
GROWTH are significantly negative, which is consistent with our
expectation. The negative coefficient of ARBaseline suggests that default rates are lower the better the default prediction of the baseline model (before adding business credit information).