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Self-Preferencing at Amazon : Evidence from Search Rankings

Farronato, Chiara; Fradkin, Andrey; MacKay, Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study whether Amazon engages in self-preferencing on its marketplace by favoring its own brands (e.g., Amazon Basics) in search. To address this question, we collect new micro-level consumer search data using a custom browser extension installed by a panel of study participants. Using this...

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Households' Response to the Wealth Effects of Inflation

Schnorpfeil, Philip; Weber, Michael; Hackethal, Andreas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

beliefs about nominal debt and their own real net wealth. These changes in beliefs causally affect actual consumption and …

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Diminishing Marginal Utility Revisited

Kimball, Miles S.; Reck, Daniel; Zhang, Fudong; Ōtake, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

How quickly does marginal utility fall with increasing consumption? It depends on the dimension along which we consider concavity of the utility function. This paper estimates the distribution of heterogeneous curvature parameters in individuals' utility functions from hypothetical choice data,...

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The How and Why of Household Reactions to Income Shocks

Colarieti, Roberto; Mei, Pierfrancesco; Stantcheva, Stefanie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper studies how and why households adjust their spending, saving, and borrowing in response to transitory income shocks. We leverage new large-scale survey data to first quantitatively assess households' intertemporal marginal propensities to consume (MPCs) and deleverage (MPDs) (the...

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Consumer Demand with Social Influences : Evidence from an E-Commerce Platform

Caoui, El Hadi; Farronato, Chiara; Horton, John J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

For some kinds of goods, rarity itself is valued. "Fashionable'" goods are demanded in part because they are unique. In this paper, we explore the economics of rare goods using auctions of limited-edition shoes held by an e-commerce platform. We model endogenous entry and bidding in multi-unit...

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One Size Doesn't Fit All : Heterogeneous Depositor Compensation During Periods of Uncertainty

Artavanis, Nikolaos; Paravisini, Daniel; Robles-Garcia, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We develop a new approach to identify different categories of depositors during periods of uncertainty and quantify their compensation to remain in the bank. We isolate withdrawals due to liquidity needs, deterioration of fundamentals, and expectation about withdrawal behavior of other...

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Automating Automaticity : How the Context of Human Choice Affects the Extent of Algorithmic Bias

Agan, Amanda Y.; Davenport, Diag; Ludwig, Jens; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

preferences and beliefs, but also from the context in which people choose. When people behave automatically, biases creep in; snap …

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The Last Mile of Monetary Policy : Inattention, Reminders, and the Refinancing Channel

Byrne, Shane; Devine, Kenneth; King, Michael; McCarthy, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

attention frictions that inhibit transmission by partnering with a large bank to analyze a field experiment testing messages … inattentive financial decision-making to allow for disclosure treatment effects on attention. We find that reminders increase the …

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Listen to her : gender differences in information diffusion within the household

Fehr, Dietmar; Mollerstrom, Johanna; Perez-Truglia, Ricardo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

experiment had a long-lasting effect on their beliefs. We find that receiving information directly persistently affected … household members' beliefs. This direct learning worked similar for men and women. By contrast, for household members who did … to the husband, it affected his wife's beliefs to a similar degree as if she had directly received the information …

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How Good Are Privacy Guarantees? Platform Architecture and Violation of User Privacy

Acemoglu, Daron; Fallah, Alireza; Makhdoumi, Ali; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Many platforms deploy data collected from users for a multitude of purposes. While some are beneficial to users, others are costly to their privacy. The presence of these privacy costs means that platforms may need to provide guarantees about how and to what extent user data will be harvested...

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