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Is Oprah Contagious? Identifying Demand Spillovers in Product Networks
Carmi, Eyal; OEstreicher-Singer, Gal; Sundararajan, Arun - NET Institute - 2010
We study the online contagion of exogenous demand shocks generated by book reviews featured on the Oprah Winfrey TV show and published in the New York Times, through the co-purchase recommendation network on Amazon.com. These exogenous events may ripple through and affect the demand for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008672210
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Entrepreneurial Finance and the Flat-World Hypothesis: Evidence from Crowd-Funding Entrepreneurs in the Arts
Agrawal, Ajay; Catalini, Christian; Goldfarb, Avi - NET Institute - 2010
We examine the geography of early stage entrepreneurial finance in the context of an internet marketplace for funding … limited reputations. At the same time, however, observers of the spatial effects of the internet and related technologies … report that many economic activities have become much less geographically dependent. At an aggregate level, the internet …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008673518
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Assessing Value in Product Networks
OEstreicher-Singer, Gal; Libai, Barak - NET Institute - 2011
Traditionally, the value of a product has been assessed according to the direct revenues the product creates. However, products do not exist in isolation but rather influence one another's sales. Such influence is especially evident in eCommerce environments, where products are often presented...
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