The value of reputation in an online freelance marketplace

Marketing Science

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 860-891

  Yoganarasimhan, Hema ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Auctions; Dynamic programming; Dynamic selection; Empirical IO methods; Freelance marketplaces; Mixture models; Online reputation systems; Structural models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888101272     PISSN: 07322399     EISSN: 1526548X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mksc.2013.0809     Document Type: Article

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