Good Sellers Drive out Bad Sellers: Should We Require Consumers Protection

When Should Sellers Use Auctions?

When it is costly to participate in the sale of an asset, potential buyers typically submit offers either simultaneously, as in an auction, or sequentially, so that later potential entrants may observe previous bids. We show in an IPV setting that when the entry process is selective, so that buyers with higher values are more likely to enter, both sellers and buyers generally prefer the sequent...

Why Sellers Should Prefer Sequential Mechanisms

Reputation System: Evaluating Reputation among All Good Sellers

A reputation system assists people selecting whom to trust. The “all good reputation” problem is common in e-commerce domain, making it difficult for buyers to choose credible sellers. Observing high growth of online data in Hindi language, in this paper, we propose a reputation system in this language. The functions of this system include 1) review mining for different criteria of online trans...

Agent strategies: for sellers to satisfy purchase-orders, for buyers to select sellers

Electronic trade introduces agents|sellers and buyers|with multiple challenges. In this paper we address one of these challenges. We provide new understandings regarding strategies that agents, each representing a buyer or a seller, can use in dynamic electronic markets. In particular, we examine strategies for sellers to decide which purchase-orders to satisfy in the face of stock shortages. W...

Information Sharing Behavior in Social Commerce Sites: The Differences between Sellers and Non-Sellers

The rise of social media encouraged customers to share information more frequently and to larger extent. Previous work primarily focused on how and why customers share information in online social commerce sites. In the current study, we distinguish between the two types of users: sellers and non-sellers in social commerce sites. Drawing on the goal theory, we empirically examine intrinsic and ...