Person-to-person lending: The pursuit of (more) competitive credit markets;Le prêt de particulier à particulier: À la recherche de marchés de crédit (plus) concurrentiels

ICIS 2008 Proceedings - Twenty Ninth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Garman, Samuel R ^a   Hampshire, Robert C ^a   Krishnan, Ramayya ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competing auction; Person to person lending; Price dispersion

Indexed keywords

COMPETING AUCTIONS; COMPETITIVE MARKETS; CREDIT MARKETS; INTEREST RATES; PERSON-TO-PERSON LENDING; PRICE DISPERSION;

DISPERSIONS; FRICTION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; TRIBOLOGY;

COMMERCE;

EID: 84870963078     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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