Recent theoretical work suggests that debt collection agencies play an important role in gathering and processing debtor information. We study a comprehensive data set with information provided by original creditors and information gathered in third-party debt collection. In line with the theoretical results, the initial information is sparse and the gathered information is essential for better-informed predictions.
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