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Learning from online ratings
Hui, Xiang; Klein, Tobias J.; Stahl, Konrad - 2024
Online ratings play an important role in many markets. However, how fast they can reveal seller types remains unclear. To study this question, we propose a new model in which a buyer learns about the seller’s type from previous ratings and her own experience and rates the seller if she learns...
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Digital piracy : theory
Belleflamme, Paul; Peitz, Martin - 2010
; IP protection ; internet ; peer-to-peer ; software ; music …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008698398
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Internet and voting in the Web 2.0 era : evidence from a local broadband policy
Poy, Samuele; Schüller, Simone - 2016
broadband policy increased overall Internet and broadband take-up among private households. …
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Lock-in effects in online labor markets
Ciotti, Fabrizio; Hornuf, Lars; Stenzhorn, Eliza - 2021
This article reports on an investigation of the role of lock-in exploitation and the impact of reputation portability on workers’ switching behaviors in online labor markets. Online platforms using reputation mechanisms typically prevent users from transferring their ratings to other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012652857
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Surfing alone? : the Internet and social capital ; evidence from an unforeseeable technological mistake
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - 2011
Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging … unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individuallevel data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects …-owned telecommunication provider in the 1990s that still hinders broadband Internet access for many households. We find no evidence that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009130242
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Online versus offline : which networks spur protests?
Potrafke, Niklas; Rösel, Felix - 2022
Does social media or offline social cohesion overcome collective action problems more effectively when both types of networks are prevalent? We investigate non-violent protests against a place-based economic reform in Austria - a country where one in two citizens uses Facebook but also one in...
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Returns to data : evidence from web tracking
Ullrich, Hannes; Hannane, Jonas; Peukert, Christian; … - 2024
Tracking online user behavior is essential for targeted advertising and is at the heart of the business model of major online platforms. We analyze tracker-specific web browsing data to show how the prediction quality of consumer profiles varies with data size and scope. We find decreasing...
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Communicating subjective evaluations
Lang, Matthias - 2014
Should principals explain and justify their evaluations? Suppose the principal's evaluation is private information, but … space is restricted, but the message is costless. I show that the principal justifies her evaluation to the agent if the … evaluation indicates bad performance. The justification assures the agent that the principal has not distorted the evaluation …
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Reserve price formation in online auctions
Englmaier, Florian (contributor);  … - 2008
We use a unique hand collected data set of 6 258 auctions from the online football manager game Hattrick to study micro-patterns of reserve price formation. We find that chosen reserve prices exhibit both, very sophisticated and irrationalʺ behavior by the sellers. Reserve prices pick up the...
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The limits of trust in economic transactions : investigations of perfect reputation systems
Bolton, Gary E. (contributor); Ockenfels, Axel (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635261