Demographics, career concerns or social Comparison
who games SSRN download counts?
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Author
Contributions
- Larkin, Ian - Contributor
- Harvard Business School - Contributor
Publication
2009 - Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
7,500 words, Guess
Page Count
30 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL50194990M
- OCLC Control Number541953242
Description
We use a unique database of every SSRN paper download over the course of seven years, along with detailed resume data on a random sample of SSRN authors, to examine the role of demographic factors, career concerns, and social comparisons on the commission of a particular type of gaming: the self-downloading of an author's own SSRN working paper solely to inflate the paper's reported download count. We find significant evidence that authors are more likely to inflate their papers' download counts when a higher count greatly improves the visibility of a paper on the SSRN network. We also find limited evidence of gaming due to demographic factors and career concerns, and strong evidence of gaming driven by social comparisons with various peer groups. These results indicate the importance of including psychological factors in the study of deceptive behavior.
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