Previous studies indicate that individuals' default behaviors on online peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms greatly influence other borrowers' default intentions. However, the mechanism of this impact is not clear. Moreover, there is scarce research in regard to which factors influence the...

Purpose: This paper considers a two-echelon supply chain composed of one risk-neutral supplier and two risk-averse retailers. The retailers obtain production from the supplier and sell them to the market. Based on the cooperative game theory, the paper studies the appropriate profit allocation...

This paper investigates how friendship relationships act as pipes, prisms, and herding signals in a large online Peer-to-Peer (P2P) lending site. By analyzing decisions of lenders, we find that friends of the borrower, especially close offline friends, act as financial “pipes” by lending...