How Effective Are Electronic Reputation Mechanisms? An Experimental Investigation

By Gary E. Bolton, Elena Katok, Axel Ockenfels. Management Sciences, 2004

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Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Safety Research

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Reputation Formation and the Evolution of Cooperation in Anonymous Online Markets (2014, unknown): “However, unlike in credit markets, information about traders’ rep-utations is a collective good freely available to anyone (Bolton, Katok, and Ockenfels 2004).”
Bargaining outside the lab - a newspaper experiment of a three person-ultimatum game (2005, unknown): “It might be for this reason that reputation systems are so important in the Internet (Bolton et al., 2004).”
Late and multiple bidding in second price Internet auctions: Theory and evidence concerning different rules for ending an auction (2006, background): “21 Of course, the feedback numbers’ primary task is to measure the trustworthiness of the market participants (see, e.g., Bolton et al., 2004 ).”
Internet exchanges for used goods: an empirical analysis of trade patterns and adverse selection 1 (2009, unknown): “Bolton et al. (2004) show that while the feedback mechanism induces quite a substantial improvement in transaction efficiency, the mechanism also presents a kind of public goods problem in that the benefits of trustworthy behavior are not completely internalized, resulting in persistent moral…”
Judging Borrowers by the Company They Keep: Friendship Networks and Information Asymmetry in Online Peer-to-Peer Lending (2013, unknown): “The literature on eBay auctions also considers adverse selection, and emphasizes the role of seller reputation through buyer feedback in mitigating it (see, for instance, Dellarocas 2003, Bolton et al. 2004, Houser and Wooders 2006, Ghose and Ipeirotis 2011, Hill et al. 2006, Resnick et al. 2006).”
A Comparison of Buyer-Determined and Price-Based Multiattribute Mechanisms (2007, background): “The repeated nature of the interaction also presents opportunities for future research on issues such as reputation building (e.g., Bolton et al. 2004).”
Social Preferences and Supply Chain Performance: An Experimental Study (2008, unknown): “compared with random matching mechanism (e.g., Bolton et al. 2004; Brown et al. 2004; Falk et al.”