From the wisdom of crowds to my own judgment in microfinance through online peer-to-peer lending platforms

Electronic Commerce Research and Applications

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 469-483

  Yum, Haewon ^a   Lee, Byungtae ^b   Chae, Myungsin ^c  

^a Monitor Group   (South Korea)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Business School   (South Korea)

^c Seoul University of Venture and Information   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Digital intermediation; Economic analysis; Financial services; Information asymmetries; Intermediation; Microfinance; Peer to peer lending; Transaction histories; Wisdom of crowds

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL INTERMEDIATION; FINANCIAL SERVICE; INFORMATION ASYMMETRY; INTERMEDIATION; MICROFINANCE; PEER TO PEER; WISDOM OF CROWDS;

COMMERCE; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS;

FINANCE;

EID: 84867508486     PISSN: 15674223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.elerap.2012.05.003     Document Type: Article

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