experiences lower. Furthermore, our study is closely linked to the emerging literature of attribution bias in economics and … psychology and provides a scenario in which we can empirically test two leading theories of attribution bias. In our paper, we … restaurants on special occasions. This result can be explained by one theory of attribution bias according to which people have …

which firms slant their reports toward the prior beliefs of their customers in order to build a reputation for quality. Bias … quality when its reports conform to the consumer's prior expectations. We use this fact to build a model of media bias in … emerges in our model even though it can make all market participants worse off. The model predicts that bias will be less …

reputation: “Reputation Failure.” By spotlighting the public-good nature of reviews, rankings, and even gossip, this Article … biases that systematically distort it. The Article argues that these distortions are inherent to most systems of reputation … and that they make reputation far less reliable than traditionally understood.The limits of reputation highlight the …

the Internet traffic and the Web graph indicated the scale-free structure of the Web and other Complex Networks. Going a …

In this paper, we analyze how different dimensions of a seller's reputation affect pricing power in electronic markets … structure dimensions of importance from feedback posted on reputation systems. By aggregating and scoring these dimensions based … on the sentiment they contain, we use them to estimate a series of econometric models associating reputation with price …