Moreover, in unreported robustness checks, we confirm our results
for the geographic and industry-based segmentation by
orthogonalizing DAR on ARBaseline. A similar approach has been
chosen by Agarwal and Hauswald (2010) to eliminate the informational
overlap between public and private credit assessments made
by banks. The main reason for this additional test is that the value
of business credit information is correlated with the level of the default
prediction accuracy without such information (i.e., there is a
significantly negative correlation between DAR and ARBaseline). It
turns out that the results are similar.