Winner Takes All? The Blockbuster Effect on Crowdfunding Platforms

The authors thank senior editor Anandasivam Gopal, associate editor Sunil Wattal, and three anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments and valuable suggestions on this research. The development of this research benefited from feedback from Anindya Ghose, Bin Gu, Sunil Mithas, Gordon Burtch, Yuqing Ren, and De Liu on earlier drafts. The authors thank the participants at 2015 and 2020 Workshops on Information Systems and Economics, 2015 International Conference on Information Systems, 2017 Symposium on Statistical Challenges in eCommerce Research, and 2019 Annual Meeting of Academy of Management, as well as seminar participants at University of Minnesota, National University of Singapore, and Harbin Institute of Technology. The authors also recognize the research assistance from Boxin Yang and Jingjing Liu at the early stage of this work. The first two authors contributed equally. The authors also thank their institutions (the University of Colorado Boulder, Georgia State University, and the National University of Singapore) for supporting this research.