Gender and age-based investor affinities in a Ponzi scheme
Abstract Utilizing a police dataset of a fundraising Ponzi scheme in China, we establish referrer-investor links and examine how investor affinity in terms of gender and age affects the way the scheme spreads and the way investors suffer losses. We find that female or older investors are more suscep...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Nature
2021-03-01
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| Series: | Humanities & Social Sciences Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00733-w |