The Attraction Effect in Crowdfunding

The authors thank Alexander Simons and Matthias Tietz for contributing to an earlier version of this paper. They thank participants of the research seminars at Duisburg-Essen University, Erasmus University Rotterdam, ETH Zurich, Iowa State University, University of Cologne, and University of Erlangen-Nuremberg for their valuable comments, and participants of the Annual Conference of the Society of Judgment and Decision Making; Workshop of Information Systems and Economics; and Workshop on IS Design, Analytics, and Economic Behavior. They acknowledge support from the following sources: Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of Cologne, and the University of Liechtenstein. Finally, they thank the senior editor, associate editor, and the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments on earlier versions of this manuscript.