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How Does Popularity Information Affect Choices? A Field Experiment

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Tucker, Catherine Elizabeth; Zhang, Juanjuan
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Abstract
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 same level of popularity implies higher quality for narrow-appeal products than for broad-appeal products. We examine this hypothesis empirically using eld experiment data from a web site that lists wed- ding service vendors. Our ndings are consistent with this hypothesis: narrow-appeal vendors receive more visits than equally popular broad-appeal vendors after the intro- duction of popularity information.
Date issued
2011-05
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/64921
Department
Sloan School of Management
Journal
Management Science
Publisher
INFORMS
Citation
Tucker, Catherine, and Juanjuan Zhang. “How Does Popularity Information Affect Choices? A Field Experiment.” Management Science 57.5 (2011) : 828-842.
Version: Author's final manuscript
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1526-5501
0025-1909

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