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Safety Reviews on Airbnb : An Information Tale

Culotta, Aron; Jin, Ginger Zhe; Sun, Yidan; Wagman, Liad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Consumer reviews, especially those expressing concerns of product quality, are crucial for the credibility of online platforms. However, reviews that criticize a product or service may also dissuade buyers from using the platform, creating an incentive to blur the visibility of critical reviews....

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Forecasting the Impact of Racial Uprisings, Market versus Stakeholders' Expectations

Ba, Bocar A.; Rivera, Roman; Whitefield, Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Given police abolitionism's new visibility after the 2020 racial justice protests, we assess stakeholder beliefs on the protests' stock impacts on police-affiliated firms. Experts generally underestimate the firms' stock gains, except situated experts like community organizers and police...

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A Model of Behavioral Manipulation

Acemoglu, Daron; Makhdoumi, Ali; Malekian, Azarakhsh; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We build a model of online behavioral manipulation driven by AI advances. A platform dynamically offers one of n products to a user who slowly learns product quality. User learning depends on a product's "glossiness,' which captures attributes that make products appear more attractive than they...

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Learning by Investing : Entrepreneurial Spillovers from Venture Capital

Lerner, Joshua; Li, Jinlin; Liu, Tong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper studies how investing in venture capital (VC) affects the entrepreneurial outcomes of individual limited partners (LPs). Using comprehensive administrative data on entrepreneurial activities and VC fundraising and investments in China, we first document that individual LPs, on...

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Sequential Search for Corporate Bonds

Kargar, Mahyar; Lester, Benjamin; Plante, Sébastien; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

In over-the-counter (OTC) markets, customers search for counterparties. Little is known about this process, however …, because existing data is comprised of transaction records, which are only informative about the end of a successful search …. Leveraging data from the leading trading platform for corporate bonds, we offer evidence about the search process: we analyze …

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'We Are Not Guinea Pigs' : The Effects of Disclosure of Medical Misconduct on Vaccine Compliance

Archibong, Belinda; Annan, Francis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

In 1996, following an epidemic, Pfizer tested a new drug on 200 children in Muslim Nigeria. 11 children died while others were disabled. We study the effects of the disclosure, in 2000, of the deaths of Muslim children in the Pfizer trials on vaccine compliance among Muslim mothers. Muslim...

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Households' Response to the Wealth Effects of Inflation

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

We study the redistributive effects of inflation combining administrative bank data with an information provision experiment during an episode of historic inflation. On average, households are well-informed about prevailing inflation and are concerned about its impact on their wealth; yet, while...

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You Can Lead a Horse to Water : Spatial Learning and Path Dependence in Consumer Search

Hodgson, Charles; Lewis, Gregory - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We develop and estimate a model of consumer search with spatial learning. Consumers make inferences from previously … searched objects to unsearched objects that are nearby in attribute space, generating path dependence in search sequences. The … estimated model rationalizes patterns in data on online consumer search paths: search tends to converge to the chosen product in …

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Do Consumers Acquire Information Optimally? Experimental Evidence from Energy Efficiency

La Nauze, Andrea; Myers, Erica - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We use an experiment to test whether consumers optimally acquire information on energy costs in appliance markets where, like many contexts, consumers are poorly informed and make mistakes despite freely-available information. We find consumers acquire information suboptimally; there is little...

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Does Q&A Boost Engagement? Health Messaging Experiments in the U.S. and Ghana

Kirgios, Erika; Athey, Susan; Duckworth, Angela; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Effective information sharing is critical for the success of organizations and governments. Because information that is easy to access is more likely to be adopted, leaders often minimize friction in information delivery. However, one type of friction may increase engagement: piquing curiosity...

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