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The Effect of Deceptive Advertising on Consumption of the Advertised Good and its Substitutes: The Case of Over-the-Counter Weight Loss Products

Cawley, John; Avery, Rosemary; Eisenberg, Matthew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper is the first to estimate the impact of exposure to deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised product and its substitutes. We study the market for over-the-counter (OTC) weight-loss products, a market in which deceptive advertising is rampant and products are generally...

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Men Vote in Mars, Women Vote in Venus: A Survey Experiment in the Field

Galasso, Vincenzo; Nannicini, Tommaso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper investigates the differential response of male and female voters to competitive persuasion in political campaigns. During the 2011 municipal elections in Milan, a sample of eligible voters was randomly divided into three groups. Two were exposed to the same incumbent's campaign but to...

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Referral Incentives in Crowdfunding

Naroditskiy, Victor; Stein, Sebastian; Tonin, Mirco; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Word-of-mouth, referral, or viral marketing is a highly sought-after way of advertising. We undertake a field experiment that compares incentive mechanisms for encouraging social media shares to support a given cause. Our experiment takes place on a website set up to promote a fundraising drive...

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Exploring the Nature of Loss Aversion

Johnson, Eric J.; Gächter, Simon; Herrmann, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Loss aversion, the fact that losses have a greater impact than gains, is a fundamental property of behavioral accounts of choice. In this paper, we suggest four possible characterizations of the relative impact of losses and gains: (1) It could be a constant, such as the much cited value of 2,...

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Demand Side Analysis of Microlending Markets in Germany

Kritikos, Alexander S.; Kneiding, Christoph; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

In developing and transition economies, microlending has become an effective instrument for providing micro businesses with the necessary financial resources to launch operations. In the industrialized countries, with their highly developed banking systems, however, there has been ongoing debate...

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Privatization and Changes in the Wage Structure: Evidence from Firm Personnel Records

Melly, Blaise; Puhani, Patrick A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We investigate the wage effects of privatization using person-level firm-based panel datasets from one privatized and one nonprivatized public sector firm in the same country for the years immediately before and after privatization. Thus, we can analyze the before-after effects of privatization...

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Reform Redux: Measurement, Determinants and Reversals

Campos, Nauro F.; Horváth, Roman - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We construct objective measures of privatization, internal and external liberalization reform efforts, across countries … external liberalization and privatization, concentration of political power drives internal liberalization, and democracy … internal liberalization reversals, and OECD growth increase that of external liberalization reversals. We replicate previous …

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Employment Outcomes and the Interaction Between Product and Labor Market Deregulation: Are They Substitutes or Complements?

Fiori, Giuseppe; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; Scarpetta, Stefano; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper provides a systematic empirical investigation of the effect of product market liberalization on employment …

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Real Exchange Rate, Foreign Trade and Employment: Evidence from China

Zeng, Xiangquan; Yuxue, Cui; Shisong, Qing; Yumei, Yang - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Coordination of macro-economic development and employment is an essential issue for China's social development, which largely depends on economic expansion, as well as integration into the global market to create jobs. Through the literature review and empirical test, this paper analyses the...

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Purchasing Power Parity for Developing and Developed Countries: What Can We Learn from Non-Stationary Panel Data Models?

Drine, Imed; Rault, Christophe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

regime doesn’t condition the validity of PPP which is more easily accepted in countries with high than low inflation. …

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