Understanding voluntary knowledge provision and content contribution through a social-media-based prediction market: A field experiment

Information Systems Research

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 529-546

  Qiu, Liangfei ^a   Kumar, Subodha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Field experiment; Prediction market; Social media; Treatment effects

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; FORECASTING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

AVERAGE TREATMENT EFFECTS; DIFFERENCE-IN-DIFFERENCES; FIELD EXPERIMENT; PREDICTION ACCURACY; PREDICTION MARKETS; QUANTILE TREATMENT EFFECTS; SOCIAL MEDIA; TREATMENT EFFECTS;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 85035332086     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.2016.0679     Document Type: Article

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