%0 Book Section %B The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Networks %D 2016 %T Informal Transfers in Social Networks %A Markus Mobius %A Tanya Rosenblat %X Social networks can facilitate informal lending and risk-sharing in situations where for-
mal institutions such as banks and insurance companies do not exist. The social collateral approach provides an analytically tractable framework that can be used to analyze a wide range of informal transfers. Moreover, the approach is easily amenable to empirical analysis. %B The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Networks %I Oxford University Press %P 611-629 %G eng %U https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199948277.013.28