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Trust and Credit
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Paper by Jefferson Duarte, Stephan Siegel and Lance Young Abstract: This study considers the impact of trustworthiness on financial markets at the individual transaction level. We employ a natural experiment using the peer-to-peer lending site, Prosper.com. We find that borrowers who ...
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Trust and Credit by Jefferson Duarte, Stephan Siegel, Lance Young
— papers.ssrn.com — Rice University Stephan Siegel University of Washington - Business School Lance A. Young University of Washington -... Department of Finance and Business Economics February 17, 2009 Abstract: This study considers the impact of trustworthiness on ... (more) Trust and Credit by Jefferson Duarte, Stephan Siegel, ...

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