Manipulation through biased product reviews
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11640%2F20%3A00540260" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11640/20:00540260 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/joie.12240" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1111/joie.12240</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/joie.12240" target="_blank" >10.1111/joie.12240</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Manipulation through biased product reviews
Original language description
We study a signal‐jamming model of product review manipulation in which rational consumers consult product reviews and price to better estimate a product's quality, and a firm, whose quality is either high or low, chooses its price and how much bias to insert into product reviews. We show that both firm types always exert positive effort to manipulate product reviews, and, depending on the equilibrium price level, one or both of them can increase its sales. When the high‐type firm exerts more effort than the low‐type, review manipulation benefits consumers by raising [lowering] their demand for the high‐quality [low‐quality] product.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of Industrial Economics
ISSN
0022-1821
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
68
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
49
Pages from-to
591-639
UT code for WoS article
000616671600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85100709837