Trust and trustworthiness in online credit markets

Ko Kuwabara, Christine Horne, Denise Anthony

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Abstract

This project examines the role of ability and reliability in assessments of trustworthiness. Specifically, we use data from the lending website Prosper.com, an online marketplace for "peer-to-peer" lending, where potential borrowers post loan requests, and other individuals bid to loan all or part of the dollar amount requested. We examine how signals of financial ability to repay interact with signals of socially defined reliability to effect individual borrowing rates on Prosper.com.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - IEEE 9th International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, DASC 2011
Pages974-979
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event9th IEEE Int. Conf. on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Comput., DASC 2011, incl. 9th Int. Conf. on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, PICom 2011, 9th Int. Symp. on Embedded Computing, EmbeddedCom 2011, 1st Int. Conf. on Cloud and Green Comput.CGC - Sydney, NSW, Australia
Duration: Dec 12 2011Dec 14 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE 9th International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, DASC 2011

Conference

Conference9th IEEE Int. Conf. on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Comput., DASC 2011, incl. 9th Int. Conf. on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, PICom 2011, 9th Int. Symp. on Embedded Computing, EmbeddedCom 2011, 1st Int. Conf. on Cloud and Green Comput.CGC
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CitySydney, NSW
Period12/12/1112/14/11

Keywords

  • Peer-to-peer markets
  • reputation
  • trust

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Software

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