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The Impact of IPOs on Peer-to-Peer Lending Platforms
In a new paper, we investigate how initial public offerings affect peer-to-peer lending platforms and, more specifically, whether the platforms tend to alter their operational decisions in anticipation of going public.
Peer-to-peer lenders are essentially online services that match anonymous …