Emergence of Financial Intermediaries in Electronic Markets: The Case of Online P2P Lending

Business Research

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 39-65

  Berger, Sven C ^a   Gleisner, Fabian ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asymmetric information; electronic markets; intermediation; social lending

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869998525     PISSN: 21983402     EISSN: 21982627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03343528     Document Type: Article

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