How Does Popularity Information Affect Choices? A Field Experiment

Popularity information is usually thought to reinforce existing sales trends by encour- aging customers to ock to mainstream products with broad appeal. We suggest a countervailing market force: popularity information may bene t niche products with narrow appeal disproportionately, because the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tucker, Catherine Elizabeth, Zhang, Juanjuan
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: INFORMS 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/64921
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1635-3797
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1847-4832