Can social networks help mitigate information asymmetry in online markets?

ICIS 2009 Proceedings - Thirtieth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Lin, Mingfeng ^a   Prabhala, Nagpurnanand R ^a   Viswanathan, Siva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Econometric analyses; Information asymmetry; Online social networks; P2p lending

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC RELATIONS; INFORMATION ASYMMETRY; MARKET PARTICIPANTS; NETWORK TIE; ONLINE MARKETS; ONLINE QUALITY; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; P2P LENDING; PEER PRESSURE; PEER TO PEER; SIGNALING MECHANISMS; SOCIAL NETWORK POSITIONS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; VERIFIABILITY;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84870960357     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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