over seller quality. Typically, these markets use reputation systems to alleviate this issue, but the effectiveness of … auction, or wait for more bids. In the process, she trades-off sellers’ price, reputation, other attributes, and the costs of … waiting and canceling. Our framework addresses ‘dynamic selection’, which can lead to underestimation of reputation, through …

New sellers who enter online marketplaces have to build up an online reputation in order to be successful. I examine … reputation. Using data from an online self-publishing platform, I show that the same e-book is more likely to be offered as free … reputation is driven by a selection effect, whereby more consumers with a lower preference for a particular e-book provide …

We build a model of reputation featuring a long-lived player (e.g. an online seller) and an infinite sequence of short …-lived players (e.g. online buyers) which is consistent with three crucial idiosyncrasies of online reputation systems. First …. Third, short-lived players may have partial knowledge about the entire history of the game to date given that the reputation …

Reputation systems are emerging as an increasingly important component of online communities, helping elicit good …-depth study of the motivations of trader participation in eBay's reputation system. To examine these questions, we analyze data … expectation of reciprocal behavior from partners increases reputation system participation from self-interested eBay buyers and …