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The Role of Advertisers and Platforms in Monetizing Misinformation : Descriptive and Experimental Evidence

Ahmad, Wajeeha; Sen, Ananya; Eesley, Charles E.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The financial motivation to earn advertising revenue by spreading misinformation has been widely conjectured to be among the main reasons misinformation continues to be prevalent online. Research aimed at reducing the spread of misinformation has so far focused on user-level interventions with...

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The Effect of Price Caps on Pharmaceutical Advertising : Evidence from the 340b Drug Pricing Program

Hristakeva, Sylvia; Mortimer, Julie Holland; Yde, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study the effect of price caps on the provision of costly effort by pharmaceutical firms using variation in drug discounts generated by a price regulation program that allows eligible hospitals to purchase outpatient drugs at steep discounts. These discounts directly affect drug...

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The Impact of Fake Reviews on Demand and Welfare

Akesson, Jesper; Hahn, Robert William; Metcalfe, Robert D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Although fake online customer reviews have become prevalent on platforms such as Amazon, Google, and Facebook, little is known about how these reviews influence consumer behavior. This paper provides the first experimental estimates of the effects of fake reviews on individual demand and...

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Estimating the Value of Offsite Tracking Data to Advertisers : Evidence from Meta

Wernerfelt, Nils; Tuchman, Anna; Shapiro, Bradley; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Third-party cookies and related 'offsite' tracking technologies are frequently used to share user data across applications in support of ad delivery. These data are viewed as highly valuable for online advertisers, but their usage faces increasing headwinds. In this paper, we quantify the...

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Experimentation in Federal Systems

Callander, Steven - 2013

We present a model where heterogeneous districts choose both whether to experiment and the policies to experiment with. Since districts learn from each other, the first-best requires that policy experiments converge so that innovations are useful also for neighbors. However, the equilibrium...

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Organizing a Kingdom

Angelucci, Charles; Meraglia, Simone; Voigtländer, Nico - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We develop a framework that examines the organizational challenges faced by central rulers governing large territories, where administrative power needs to be delegated to local elites. We describe how economic change can motivate rulers to empower different elites and emphasize the interaction...

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Federalism with and without Political Centralization : China versus Russia

Blanchard, Olivier - 2000

question then is why this has not happened in China. We argue that the answer lies in the degree of political centralization … believe the experience of Russia indicates that another ingredient is crucial, namely political centralization …

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Majority Choice of Taxation and Redistribution in a Federation

Calabrese, Stephen - 2018

We provide a model with a federal government and multiple local governments, the former with power to levy an income tax for redistribution, and the latter choosing a local income tax, property tax, lump-sum tax or subsidy, and a local public good. Policy is set by majority choice at each tier...

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Centralization, Fiscal Federalism and Private School Attendance

Nechyba, Thomas J. - 2001

attendance. In particular, the common perception that centralization of public school finance will necessarily lead to greater … centralization involves an extreme equalization of the kind observed in California. Furthermore, if centralization occurs through … schools in centralizing states imply that general public school quality does not drop as a result of such centralization …

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Corps Intermédiaires, Civil Society, and the Art of Association

Levy, Jacob T. - 2015

pluralism with privilege to the absence of both. They worried that centralization, democratic or otherwise, might be the …

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