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Token-Weighted Crowdsourcing

Gerry Tsoukalas
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Gerry Tsoukalas
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https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2011-3646
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104;
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Brett Hemenway Falk
Brett Hemenway Falk
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Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
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Gerry Tsoukalas

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Gerry Tsoukalas

[email protected]

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2011-3646

The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104;

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Brett Hemenway Falk

[email protected]

Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104

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Published Online:3 Aug 2020https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2019.3515

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Received:December 06, 2018
Accepted:August 26, 2019
Published Online:August 03, 2020

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