Havrylchyk, Olena; Mariotto, Carlotta; Rahim, Talal; … - In: Review of Network Economics 19 (2021) 3, pp. 145-187
Abstract We use data from the two leading US platforms, Prosper and Lending Club, to explore the drivers of the growing … consumer demand for peer-to-peer (P2P) credit. Despite the online nature of new entrants, we rely on the spatial autoregressive … model because spatial effects play an important role. Our findings suggest that the initial growth of P2P lending was …