Recognizing the growth of Facebook and advertising on this platform in an emerging market, we conducted a study on the impact of Facebook advertising characteristics on the market's purchase intention. This study attempts to identify and test key factors that have a direct impact on customer...

Online advertising is a new platform for marketers to create awareness and increase brand equity. The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of online advertising on purchase intentions. Three features of online advertising were discussed and examined, i.e. multimedia, pictures and content...

We study the optimal algorithm decisions of a platform on ranking products sold by sellers--who may use fake sales to boost the rankings of their products--and the impact on consumers and sellers. We design a model of an online retail marketplace with competing sellers. The platform decides...