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Megan Hunter
dblp:313/3482
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2022
—ORCID · unresolved
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Theory of computation · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Computational social science and digital humanities · 100% | |
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Algorithmic game theory and mechanism design · 100% |
Topics — the 1 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Computational social science and digital humanities
online platforms |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | Chasing Stars: Firms' Strategic Responses to Online Consumer Ratings · EC 2022 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
theoretical framework · 1.1counterfactual analysis · 1.1
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Chasing Stars: Firms' Strategic Responses to Online Consumer RatingsabstractIn this paper, I show that a common way that platforms display firms' quality ratings incentivizes firms to strategically take costly short-run actions that improve their ratings. Most review platforms display star ratings of goods and services rounded to a half star, rather than display the exact average rating. Since the true average rating is not shown, firms have an incentive to remain just above the rounding threshold in order to have a higher displayed rating. However, once a firm's rating passes the rounding threshold, the incentive to improve the ratings drops as a firm's rating moves farther from the threshold. I study this phenomenon in the context of auto repair. I find that there is an excessive amount of bunching around ratings thresholds. The firms' actions toward improving their ratings are typically unobserved. However, due to my novel data and the discontinuity of displayed ratings, I can model and infer firm behavior. Specifically, I provide evidence that firms change the services they provide and exert extra effort when they are close to rounding thresholds. Finally, I provide a theoretical framework in order to quantify the significance of these actions. I provide optimal policies for firm actions depending on a firm's rating and number of reviews in a variety of counterfactual settings. Megan Hunter |
EC | 1 |