The dark side of information and market efficiency in e-markets

Decision Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 297-324

  Grover, Varun ^a   Lim, Jaejoo ^a   Ayyagari, Ramakrishna ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

And Price Dispersion; Consumer Behavior; E Markets; Information Equivocality; Information Overload; Market Efficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749469046     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: 15405915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5414.2006.00129.x     Document Type: Review

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