BUILDING TRUST IN THE ELECTRONIC MARKET THROUGH AN ECONOMIC INCENTIVE MECHANISM

Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 208-213

  Ba, Sulin ^a   Whinston, Andrew B ^b   Zhang, Hang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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