Effect of Auction Design on Bidder Entry: Evidence from An Online Labor Market

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Online Service Outsourcing Auctions With Endogenous Reviews

“…Although online service outsourcing has become a significant part of the world economy [4], relevant research on this new form of work and its mediating platforms is still at the start stage [12], and readers may refer to [6] for a scoping review of the related literature. In this literature, the majority of work resorts to empirical research methods to examine the impacts of different factors on, e.g., the client's outsourcing decision (e.g., [8], [13], [14]), the matching success/efficiency between clients and freelancers (e.g., [9], [15], [16]), freelancers' signaling behavior (e.g., [17]), or the service outsourcing performance (e.g., [18]).…”