Research Handbook on Alternative Finance

Edited by Franklin Allen, Professor of Finance and Economics, Business School and Director of the Brevan Howard Centre for Financial Analysis, Imperial College London, UK and Meijun Qian, Professor of Finance and Academic Dean, International Business School, Zhejiang University, China

Contents:

1 Theories, practices, and prospects of alternative finance 1
Franklin Allen and Meijun Qian

PART I ALTERNATIVE FINANCE IN BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS:
TRADE CREDIT
2 Production networks and trade credit 31
Mariassunta Giannetti
3 Trade credit: theory and evidence for emerging economies and
developing countries 49
Robert Cull, Chorching Goh and L. Colin Xu
4 Trade credit supply and usage during normal and crisis times: a recent
review of literature 70
Jeffrey Jou, Lei Li and Teng Wang

PART II ALTERNATIVE FINANCE WITHIN BUSINESS GROUPS
AND STAKEHOLDERS
5 Internal capital markets of Korean chaebols 85
Jieun Im, Woojin Kim and Inmoo Lee
6 Executive inside debt compensation 116
Shawn Huang and Juan Manuel Sanchez

PART III ALTERNATIVE FINANCE THROUGH SOCIAL NETWORKS
7 Theoretical perspectives on social relationships in informal financing 132
Samuel Lee and Petra Persson
8 Family loans and family firms 152
Charilaos Mertzanis

PART IV TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION AND
REGULATORY CHALLENGES
9 The evolution of P2P lending 181
Jefferson Duarte, Stephan Siegel and Lance Young
10 Alternative financial institutions in China 214
Nan Li and Meijun Qian
11 Managing, preserving and unlocking wealth through FinTech 251
Grace Headinger, Lauren Cohen and Zhaoheng Gong

PART V COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE AND INTRINSIC
COMPETITIVENESS
12 International comparison of alternative finance 284
Franklin Allen, Elena Carletti, Meijun Qian and Patricio Valenzuela
13 The impact of culture on finance 304
Lee Pinkowitz and Rohan Williamson
14 The competitiveness of alternative finance 326
Franklin Allen and Meijun Qian