Friendships in online peer-to-peer lending: Pipes, prisms, and relational herding

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 729-742

  De, Liu ^a   Brass, Daniel J ^b   Lu, Yong ^c,d   Chen, Dongyu ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Friendship relationships; Herding; Peer to peer lending; Prism effect; Social networks

Indexed keywords

FINANCE; PRISMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

FRIENDSHIP RELATIONSHIPS; HERDING; OFFLINE; PEER TO PEER; PEER-TO-PEER LENDING; THIRD PARTIES;

PEER TO PEER NETWORKS;

EID: 84942794689     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: 21629730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.25300/misq/2015/39.3.11     Document Type: Article

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