Is silence golden? An inquiry into the meaning of silence in professional product evaluations

Quantitative Marketing and Economics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 119-141

  Kamakura, Wagner A ^a   Basuroy, Suman ^b   Boatwright, Peter ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Critic silence; Experience goods; Expert consensus; Expert product recommendations; Latent measurement model; Multinomial logit

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646402647     PISSN: 15707156     EISSN: 1573711X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11129-006-3181-x     Document Type: Article

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