Judging borrowers by the company they keep: Friendship networks and information asymmetry in online peer-to-peer lending

Management Science

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 17-35

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Credit markets; Information asymmetry; Peer to peer (P2P) lending; Signaling; Value of social networks

Indexed keywords

CREDIT MARKETS; CREDIT QUALITY; DEFAULT RATES; ELECTRONIC MARKET; FINANCIAL MARKET; FRIENDSHIP NETWORKS; INFORMATION ASYMMETRY; INTEREST RATES; ONLINE MARKETS; P2P LENDING; PEER TO PEER; PEER-TO-PEER LENDING; PROSPER.COM; SOCIAL NETWORKS;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; FINANCE; SIGNALING;

PEER TO PEER NETWORKS;

EID: 84874137168     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1120.1560     Document Type: Review

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