Showing 1 - 10 of 101
During health crises, like COVID-19, individuals are inundated with messages promoting health-preserving behavior. Does additional light-touch messaging by a credible individual change behavior? Do the features of the message matter? To answer this, we conducted a large-scale messaging campaign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481352
We conduct a large-scale field experiment to study competitive price discrimination in a duopoly market with two rival movie theaters. The firms use mobile targeting to offer different prices based on location and past consumer activity. A novel feature of our experiment is that we test a range...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456607
The pricing and advertising of tied add-ons and overages have come under increasing scrutiny. Working with a large Turkish bank to test SMS direct marketing promotions to 108,000 existing holders of "free" checking accounts, we find that promoting a large discount on the 60% APR charged for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457710
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013481006
There is a great deal of late bidding on internet second price auctions. We show that this need not result from either …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471021
This study analyzes the service offerings of Internet Service Providers (ISPs), the commercial suppliers of Internet … access in the United States. It presents data on the services of 2089 ISPs in the summer of 1998. By this time, the Internet … paper develops an Internet access industry product code which classifies these services. Significant heterogeneity across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471071
an earnings-weighted basis. In view of this projection, we consider some implications of home internet access quality …, exploiting data from the new Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes. Moving to high-quality, fully reliable home internet …. Our survey data also say that subjective well-being was higher during the pandemic for people with better home internet …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599392
The Internet comprises thousands of independently operated networks, where bilaterally negotiated interconnection … negotiating interconnection agreements at the internet layer due to reduced bargaining power of European networks and increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480424
This paper provides experimental evidence for the impact of home internet access on a broad range of child outcomes in … Peru. We compare children who were randomly chosen to receive laptops with high-speed internet access to (i) those who did … not receive laptops and (ii) those who only received laptops without internet. We find that providing free internet access …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480963
This paper measures the role of the diffusion of high-speed Internet on an individual's ability to self-isolate during … to stay at home, the unequal diffusion of high-speed Internet in homes across regions drives much of this observed income …-income or high-speed Internet are less likely to leave their homes after such a directive. However, the combination of having …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481938