The Sound of Silence: Observational Learning in the U.S. Kidney Market

Juanjuan Zhang
Juanjuan Zhang
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Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02114
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Juanjuan Zhang

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Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02114

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Published Online:23 Jul 2009https://doi.org/10.1287/mksc.1090.0500

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Received:July 12, 2006
Accepted:February 19, 2009
Published Online:July 23, 2009

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Juanjuan Zhang, (2009) The Sound of Silence: Observational Learning in the U.S. Kidney Market. Marketing Science 29(2):315-335.

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