Research Article

An Empirical Study on Response to Online Customer Reviews and E-Commerce Sales: From the Mobile Information System Perspective

Table 3

Regression results of the main effect.

SYS-GMM modelFixed effect of panel data
Model 1Model 2Model 3Model 4

Positive review rate0.157 (0.012)0.157 (0.012)0.156 (0.012)0.154 (0.013)
Number of reviews0.176 (0.006)0.171 (0.006)0.175 (0.006)0.170 (0.006)
Trading volume in history0.299 (0.007)0.311 (0.007)0.301 (0.007)0.310 (0.007)
Operation months0.003 (0.003)0.004 (0.003)0.003 (0.003)0.003 (0.003)
Product price0.128 (0.045)1.175 (0.209)0.101 (0.043)0.143 (0.051)
Product heterogeneity1.131 (0.204)1.142 (0.177)1.231 (0.201)1.732 (0.304)
Ratio of response to negative review0.798 (0.102)0.819 (0.229)
Ratio of response to positive review0.239 (0.075)0.197 (0.043)
Wald test value ( value)4.56 (0.000)4.77 (0.000)
Region dummy variableIncludedIncludedIncludedIncluded
Season dummy variableIncludedIncludedIncludedIncluded
Industry dummy variableIncludedIncludedIncludedIncluded
Wald chi2242.52248.09
Sargan test ( value)21.230 (0.730)17.723 (0.854)
AR2 ( value)0.710 (0.478)0.181 (0.856)
R20.2220.206
F value229.12114.11
Number of observed values25798257982579825798

Note. The dependent variable is the sales volume. “” in the table means that z-statistics are significant at the level of 1%.