Cooperation Without Enforcement? A Comparative Analysis of Litigation and Online Reputation as Quality Assurance Mechanisms
- 1 January 2003
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier BV in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
Commerce depends on buyers and sellers fulfilling their contractual obligations; mechanisms inducing such performance are essential to well functioning markets.Keywords
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