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作者：Choudhary, Vidyanand; Xin, Mingdi; Zhang, Zhe
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine; University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：An extensive literature studies the benefits for a firm to be the first to invest in innovative technologies such as information technologies (ITs). However, IT investment often faces the risk of implementation failure. How would such risk affect an early adopter's incentive to invest? Do late adopters benefit from information about the early adopter's investment? In this paper, we investigate these questions in a context in which two firms, a leader and a follower, invest in a cost-reducing I...
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作者：Wang, Zhiyi; Yang, Lusi; Hahn, Jungpil
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; University System of Georgia; Georgia State University; National University of Singapore
摘要：Crowdfunding platforms are characterized by an uneven distribution of quality and resources. Some projects achieve outstanding and exceptional performance. Those projects, which we call blockbuster projects, are believed to have a considerable impact on crowdfunding platforms, especially on other concurrent projects. There are two plausible yet opposing predictions: they may exhibit both a negative effect by monopolizing backer attention and resources and a positive effect by increasing the a...
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作者：Shi, Lanfei; Viswanathan, Siva
作者单位：University of Virginia; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：Online matching platforms lack common informational mechanisms such as ratings and reviews that serve to reduce information asymmetry in transactional platforms. The lack of verified information about participants further exacerbates issues of information asymmetry in such markets. This study focuses on a novel role of verification in such matching markets-its ability to serve as a credible signal for a user when such verification is made optional and visible to other users. In collaboration w...
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作者：Peng, Jiaxu; Hahn, Jungpil; Huang, Ke-Wei
作者单位：Central University of Finance & Economics; National University of Singapore
摘要：In today's big data environment, missing values continue to be a problem that harms data quality. The bias caused by missing values raises the highest concern, as it cannot be eliminated simply by increasing the sample size. Although the statistics literature has developed approaches to handling missing values and formulated assumptions regarding when these approaches generate valid statistical inferences, these prescriptions have yet to be broadly accepted by many social science disciplines, ...
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作者：Sarker, Suprateek
作者单位：University of Virginia
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作者：Mousavi, Nasim; Adamopoulos, Panagiotis; Bockstedt, Jesse
作者单位：Emory University
摘要：In this paper, we explore the decoy effect in recommendation systems. Including a decoy item in a set of alternatives can influence the attractiveness of the other items by facilitating decision making. Prior research literature has indeed shown the decoy effect to be robust in traditional choice settings, with consistent reporting of an overall positive impact. Practitioners often use decoys to help drive demand for specific items. Recommendation systems too are increasingly being used to pre...
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作者：Lysyakov, Mikhail; Viswanathan, Siva
作者单位：University of Rochester; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：As artificial intelligence (AI) solutions are being rapidly deployed, they increasingly compete with human labor. This study examines designers' strategies in response to the threat from the introduction of an AI system for simple logo designs in a crowdsourcing design platform. We study designers who were active both before and after the introduction of the AI system to understand their responses to the threat from AI. Our study is informed by the theories of threat, specifically the protecti...
