Money, glory and cheap talk: Analyzing strategic behavior of contestants in simultaneous crowdsourcing contests on TopCoder.com

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on World Wide Web, WWW '10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 21-30

  Archak, Nikolay ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

all pay auction; cheap talk; contest; crowdsourcing; electronic markets; entry deterrence; reputation

Indexed keywords

ALLOCATIVE EFFICIENCY; CHEAP TALK; DATA SETS; ELECTRONIC MARKET; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENTRY DETERRENCE; INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE; LOWER BOUNDS; POSITIVE EFFECTS; PROJECT QUALITY; PROJECT REQUIREMENT; REPUTATION SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; STRATEGIC BEHAVIOR; STRATEGIC CHOICE;

COMPETITION; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SPECIAL EFFECTS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 77954576235     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1772690.1772694     Document Type: Conference Paper

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