This study examines bank loan officers' information focus in terms of the relative importance of hard and soft information. Data was collected from 75 experienced loan officers at a large Swedish commercial bank, generating 7425 observations, and analysed the information used in assessing loan...

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) represent a large percentage of the corporate tissue of developed countries, but they do not have adequate attention. In fact, various researchers have focused their studies on larger and well-known companies. This paper aims to investigate the impact of...