Lending behavior and community structure in an online peer-to-peer economic network

Proceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, CSE 2009

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages 613-618

  Krumme, Katherine Ann ^a   Herrero, Sergio ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Economics; Social networks

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; ECONOMIC NETWORKS; ECONOMIC TRANSACTIONS; FINANCIAL INDICATOR; ONLINE MARKETPLACES; PEER TO PEER; SOCIAL FACTOR; SOCIAL NETWORKS; STATIC AND DYNAMIC;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 70849103473     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSE.2009.185     Document Type: Conference Paper

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