This paper discusses the impacts of providing energy efficiency information to online shoppers. It lays out mechanisms by which this may improve appliance purchase and use decisions, raise awareness, improve innovation and align market forces with sustainability objectives. It finds that...

The dynamics of online searching and purchasing is becoming better known and understood as researchers study various products sold via the Web. Even though there is a prevalence of travel products purchased online, integrated frameworks that identify the various determinants of the decision...

Traditional models of the economics of search suggest that as the material costs associated with searching for products and services are greatly reduced because of the Internet, consumers should search more extensively in online contexts. Recent empirical evidence strongly contradicts this...

In order to decrease social distance and increase trust on their platforms, many online marketplaces allow traders to be represented by profile pictures or avatars. In a laboratory experiment, we investigate whether the presence of seller avatars affects trading behavior in a market. We contrast...

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...

This paper explores the possibility that demand for costly commitment may prove unnecessary and thus excessive. In an online experiment, subjects face a tedious productivity task where tempting YouTube videos invite procrastination. Subjects can pay for a commitment device that removes the...

Ad-supported websites face an increasing loss of monetizable ad impressions due to the rapid spread of adblockers, which allow users to get desired website content without unwanted advertising. As a countermeasure, many of these websites use anti-adblock filters, which detect adblock users and...

This study tests the impact of usage of Twitter as a microblogging service provider on shareholders' returns and abnormal returns. In accordance with this purpose, two portfolios were created based on measurement of whether firms had a Twitter account and, if so, their number of followers and...

Among diverse social media uses covered by researchers one has thus far captured surprisingly scant attention: social media as an investment class per se. Despite the fluctuating fortunes of numerous social media initial public offerings (IPOs) and their aftermarket trading, social media stocks...

The growth of social media has transformed how information is transmitted in the financial markets. It has impacted its primary users, the household investors' decision making on the stock market. Through Prospect theory, the household investors' unconditional trust in the social media for...