Response time in negotiation on eBay

When negotiating, does the time it takes somebody to get back to you with a response tell you something about their preferences?

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Collaborators: Ian Krajbich, Wenjia Joyce Zhao

Programming: R

Skills: Data Cleaning, Generalized Additive Models, Heckman Correction for Sampling Bias, Linear and Logistic Mixed Effects Regressions

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In this project, I study whether response times in negotiations reveal the responder’s evaluation of the offer, and thus can be used strategically by the proposers. I use an eBay dataset containing millions of bargaining exchanges between June 2012 - June 2013 to answer this question.