Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Publication Date
12-2006
Abstract
Reputation systems are ubiquitously employed in the online marketplaces to provide information on users’ abilities and trustworthiness. We focus particularly on the problem of reputation stretching, the extension of an established reputation into a new market. By examining various factors—market size, the expected performance in the expanding market, and the risk of performance in the expanding market—we characterize conditions that affect bidder’s stretching decision in the expanding market. Moreover, we analyze both the short-term and the long-term expanding cases, and obtain contrasting results in the two settings.
Keywords
Reputation Stretching, Online Auctions, Keyword Auctions
Discipline
Computer Sciences | Management Information Systems
Research Areas
Information Systems and Management
Publication
Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on e-Business (WeB) 2006, December 9, Milwaukee
First Page
44
Last Page
55
Publisher
WeB
City or Country
Milwaukee, WI
Citation
CHEN, Jianqing; LIN, Mei; and WHINSTON, Andrew B..
Reputation Stretching in Online Auctions. (2006). Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on e-Business (WeB) 2006, December 9, Milwaukee. 44-55. Research Collection School Of Information Systems.
Available at: http://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1724
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