How do credit standards on the mortgage market affect neighbourhood choice and the resulting level of urban segregation …-2006 mortgage credit boom on the level of school segregation. Census tract racial composition is strongly correlated with the racial … composition of the 10 closest schools in the cross section. Matching a national data set of mortgage originations with annual …

We use survey data to study American households’ propensity to default when the value of their mortgage exceeds the … value of their house even if they can afford to pay their mortgage (strategic default). We find that 26% of the existing … the house. Yet, 17% of households would default, even if they can afford to pay their mortgage, when the equity shortfall …

We find that advertising appears to have significant effects on investor flows at the industry, family and individual … fund level. At the industry level, flows are higher in months with more advertising dollars spent, even for non-advertising … families. At the family level, flows have a convex relation with advertising expenditures, similar to that for performance …

We present a Hotelling model of price and advertising competition between prescription drugs that differ in quality …/side e¤ects. Advertising results in the endogenous formation of two consumer groups: brand loyal and non-brand loyal ones. We … show that advertising strategies are strategic substitutes, with the better quality drugs being the ones that are most …

We extend the persuasion game to bring it squarely into the economics of advertising. We model advertising as exciting … consumer interest into learning more about the product, and determine a firm's equilibrium choice of advertising content over … quality information, price information, and horizontal match information. Equilibrium is unique whenever advertising is …

Restricting advertising is one way governments seek to reduce consumption of potentially harmful goods. There have been … increasing calls to apply a similar policy to the junk food market. The effect will depend on how brand advertising influences … dynamic oligopoly supply in which multi-product firms compete in prices and advertising budgets. We model the impact of …

not required to divest business holdings. We examine the evolution of advertising spending by firms over the period 1994 … advertising budget towards Berlusconi's channels when Berlusconi is in power. Indeed, we document a significant pro-Mediaset bias … in the allocation of advertising spending during Berlusconi's political tenure. This pattern is especially pronounced for …

We develop a model with many advertisers (products) and many advertising markets (media). Each advertiser sells to a … different segment of consumers, and each medium has a different ability to target advertising messages. We characterize the … competitive equilibrium in the media markets and evaluate the implications of targeting in advertising markets. An increase in the …