Economic implications of B2B electronic markets: The private and social desirability of information transparency

Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue , 2004, Pages 3347-3356

  Zhu, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic markets; Game theory; Information economics; Information transparency; Information transparency hypothesis

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; CORRELATION METHODS; COSTS; DECISION MAKING; GAME THEORY; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; STRATEGIC PLANNING; XML;

ELECTRONIC MARKETS; INFORMATION ECONOMICS; INFORMATION TRANSPARENCY; INFORMATION TRANSPARENCY HYPOTHESIS;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 12344276389     PISSN: 10603425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/hicss.2004.1265498     Document Type: Conference Paper

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