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We present several empirical facts about trends in marketing investment in the US. We also present estimates of the … private benefits to firms from their advertising and the established academic wisdom for the striking magnitude of marketing …
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With the rise of social media and streaming platforms, firms and brand-owners increasingly depend on influencers to attract consumers, who care about both common product quality and consumer-influencer interaction. Sellers thus compete in both influencer and product markets. As outreach and...
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How does lie detection constrain the potential for one person to persuade another to change her action? We consider a model of Bayesian persuasion in which the Receiver can detect lies with positive probability. We show that the Sender lies more when the lie detection probability increases. As...
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This paper estimates consumer demand for firearms with the aim of predicting the likely impacts of firearm regulations on the number and types of guns in circulation. We first conduct a stated-choice-based conjoint analysis and estimate an individual-level demand model for firearms. We validate...
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A quantum computer exhibits a quantum advantage when it can perform a calculation that a classical computer is unable … to complete. It follows that a company with a quantum computer would be a monopolist in the market for solving such a … calculation if its only competitor was a company with a classical computer. Conversely, economic outcomes are unclear in settings …
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computer use within occupations converged to the same levels across age groups eventually. That is, there was a temporary …
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This paper shows how to build algorithms that use graphics processing units (GPUs) installed in most modern computers to solve dynamic equilibrium models in economics. In particular, we rely on the compute unified device architecture (CUDA) of NVIDIA GPUs. We illustrate the power of the approach...
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computer example was substantial. The BLS staff has recently increased the rate at which they incorporate techniques to correct … matched model indices for non computer components of the CPI. This paper explores why …We look carefully at the data on the component index for TVs and show that differences between the TV and computer …
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software changes over time, which influences the efficiency of a computer. Anticipating future increases in software … first months or year that a computer is owned. In this case, we argue that hedonic procedures do not provide valid bounds on … the true price of computer services at the time the machine is purchased with the concurrent level of software. To assess …
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-defined use of computers in schools: a popular instructional computer program, known as Fast ForWord, which is designed to improve …. Our estimates suggest that while use of the computer program may improve some aspects of students' language skills, it …
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