From year to year, strong attention has been paid to the study of the problems of predicting firms' bankruptcy. Bankruptcy prediction is an essential issue in finance especially in emerging economics. Business information systems like Financial Information Systems (FIS) converts and store the...

We analyse the impact of soft information on US mortgages for default prediction and provide a new measure for lender soft information that is based on the interest rates offered to borrowers and incremental to public hard information. Hard and soft information provide for a variation in annual...