What prevents electronic lemon markets?

Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 217-246

  Lee, Byungtae ^a   Yoo, Byungjoon ^b  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Electronic commerce; English auction; Information asymmetry; Market segmentation; Quality discovery; Quality grading; Third party

Indexed keywords

EID: 34848889674     PISSN: 10919392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10919390701436374     Document Type: Article

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