Analyzing the economic efficiency of eBay-like online reputation reporting mechanisms

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 171-179

  Dellarocas, Chrysanthos ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic commerce; Reputation systems; Trust in electronic markets

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; EFFICIENCY; MARKETING; QUALITY CONTROL;

ELECTRONIC MARKETS; ONLINE REPUTATION SYSTEMS;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 0011921476     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/501158.501177     Document Type: Conference Paper

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