Follow the profit or the herd? Exploring social effects in peer-to-peer lending

Proceedings - SocialCom 2010: 2nd IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, PASSAT 2010: 2nd IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 137-144

  Shen, Dawei ^a   Krumme, Coco ^a   Lippman, Andrew ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIDDING BEHAVIOR; DATA ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; EXPONENTIAL CUTOFF; INVESTMENT DECISIONS; MODEL-BASED; PEER TO PEER; POWER LAW; PREFERENTIAL ATTACHMENTS; SOCIAL EFFECTS; SOCIAL FACTOR;

DATA REDUCTION; DECISION MAKING; PROFITABILITY;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 78649276078     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SocialCom.2010.28     Document Type: Conference Paper

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