Determinants of Default in P2P Lending.

This paper studies P2P lending and the factors explaining loan default. This is an important issue because in P2P lending individual investors bear the credit risk, instead of financial institutions, which are experts in dealing with this risk. P2P lenders suffer a severe problem of information asym...

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Main Authors: Carlos Serrano-Cinca, Begoña Gutiérrez-Nieto, Luz López-Palacios
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4591266?pdf=render