The Spillover of Spotlight: Platform Recommendation in the Mobile App Market

Product recommendations are ubiquitous in platform-based markets. This paper investigates the externality of platform-provided recommendations by focusing on the demand spillover to related product...

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Information systems research

• Publication date

  2019-12-01

• Fields of study

  Business, Computer Science, Economics

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1287/ISRE.2019.0863
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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