Intertemporal discount factors as a measure of trustworthiness in electronic commerce

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 699-712

  Hazard, Christopher J ^a   Singh, Munindar P ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

intertemporal discounting; reputation; Trust

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; DIRECT MEASURES; DISCOUNT FACTORS; E-COMMERCE; FILE SHARING; INTERTEMPORAL DISCOUNTING; MORAL HAZARD; MULTI-AGENT INTERACTION; ONLINE MARKETS; RATIONAL AGENTS; REPUTATION; TIME PREFERENCES; TRUST; TRUST SYSTEMS;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 79953171081     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2010.141     Document Type: Article

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