Design of an incentive mechanism to promote honesty in e-marketplaces with limited inventory

• Main Authors: Liu, Yuan, Zhang, Jie, Li, Qin
• Other Authors: School of Computer Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/97962; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/12264
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In e-marketplaces with limited inventory where buyers' demand is larger than sellers' supply, promoting honesty raises new challenges: sellers may behave dishonestly because they can sell out all products without the necessity of gaining high reputation; buyers may provide untruthful ratin...