This research shows that auction duration and description are two essential auction design parameters that function as screening mechanisms for bidder quality on popular online outsourcing platforms that use buyer-determined reverse auctions in order to find service providers. Using data from a...

By connecting people across the globe, social technologies enable people to share information instantaneously and experience “in the moment” events virtually. In the context of COVID-19, sharing localized disaster information allows socially connected friends in other non/low affected areas...

Disasters usually pose a big threat to work continuity and job stability, thus having important consequences for workers’ labor market outcomes (i.e., unemployment, work absence, and lay off). Furthermore, according to the prior literature on disaster management, disaster-induced labor market...