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soft information: a standalone construct

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Banking

information that is hard to verify, quantify and transmit, such as a loan officer's judgment, contrasted with hard numerical data.

In banking, soft information refers to information that is hard to verify, quantify and transmit, such as a loan officer's judgment, contrasted with hard numerical data. This meaning comes from Liberti (2018) in The Review of Corporate Finance Studies.[1]

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hybrid automatic repeat request1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct information4 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs judgment2 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

Liberti, J. M., & Petersen, M. A. (2018). Information: Hard and Soft. The Review of Corporate Finance Studies, 8(1), 1-41. https://doi.org/10.1093/rcfs/cfy009

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