TY - GEN
T1 - Online prosocial microlending decision making
T2 - 2016 International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2016
AU - Ding, Yi
AU - Xu, Haifeng
AU - Yang, Lusi
AU - Tan, Bernard C.Y.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - In 2014, a devastating Ebola virus epidemic burst in West Africa, which tremendously impaired the economies in the affected areas. During this crisis, in addition to traditional donations, some new forms of prosocial behaviors, such as online prosocial microlending, were adopted to help people in and near the affected areas. In this study, we extend the spotlight and gradient model to investigate people's online prosocial microlending decision making after natural disasters, which is both financial (rational) and prosocial (irrational) in nature. By leveraging the Ebola outbreak in 2014, we design a natural experiment to compare lender's online prosocial microlending behavior before and after the disaster. We find that the average amount of online prosocial microlending in unaffected areas increases after the natural disaster and the increase is negatively related to the distance between the borrower and the affected areas.
AB - In 2014, a devastating Ebola virus epidemic burst in West Africa, which tremendously impaired the economies in the affected areas. During this crisis, in addition to traditional donations, some new forms of prosocial behaviors, such as online prosocial microlending, were adopted to help people in and near the affected areas. In this study, we extend the spotlight and gradient model to investigate people's online prosocial microlending decision making after natural disasters, which is both financial (rational) and prosocial (irrational) in nature. By leveraging the Ebola outbreak in 2014, we design a natural experiment to compare lender's online prosocial microlending behavior before and after the disaster. We find that the average amount of online prosocial microlending in unaffected areas increases after the natural disaster and the increase is negatively related to the distance between the borrower and the affected areas.
KW - Disaster
KW - Microlending
KW - Prosocial
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85019398402
T3 - 2016 International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2016
BT - 2016 International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2016
PB - Association for Information Systems
Y2 - 11 December 2016 through 14 December 2016
ER -