Social influence and defaults in peer-topeer lendingnetworks

International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2012

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 1797-1813

  Lu, Yong ^a   Gu, Bin ^b   Ye, Qiang ^c   Sheng, Zhexiang ^d  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical analysis; Peer to peer lending; Social influence

Indexed keywords

DEFAULT RATES; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; OFFLINE; PEER-TO-PEER LENDING; SOCIAL INFLUENCE;

FINANCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84886576876     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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