The roles of players and reputation: Evidence from eBay online auctions

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1800-1818

  Zhang, Jie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric Information; Online auction; Reputation

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; FEEDBACK; SALES; WEBSITES;

ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION; ONLINE AUCTION; ONLINE FEEDBACK MECHANISMS; REPUTATION;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750447656     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2006.03.008     Document Type: Article

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