Reputation distribution and consumer-to-consumer online auction market structure: An exploratory study

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 435-448

  Lin, Zhangxi ^a   Li, Dahui ^b   Janamanchi, Balaji ^a,d   Huang, Wayne ^c  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^c OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Institute of Chartered Accountants of India   (India)

Author keywords

Entry and exit; Gibrat's law; Lognormal distribution; Market structure; Online auction market; Reputation

Indexed keywords

LOGNORMAL DISTRIBUTION; MARKET STRUCTURE; ONLINE AUCTION MARKET; REPUTATION;

DATA ACQUISITION; MARKETING;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 29144433962     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2004.07.006     Document Type: Article

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