Why do people rate? Theory and evidence on online ratings

DOI10.1016/J.GEB.2014.02.008MaRDI QIDQ485811zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jonathan Lafky

Publication date 14 January 2015

Published in Games and Economic Behavior (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2014.02.008

zbMATH Keywords

altruismonline ratingspunishment

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Internet topics (68M11) Applications of game theory (91A80) Individual preferences (91B08)

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