Abstract:
We consider the problem of minimizing the risk taken on by investors in a two-tier (banking) system of lending and a system of peer-to-peer lending, assuming the incoming risks to be constant. It is shown that with the introduction of a special (nonsystematic) risk, the peer-to-peer lending model turns out to be optimal.
Keywords:control in social economic systems, banking risk, peer-to-peer lending, Markowitz optimal portfolio theory.