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The Production and Consumption of Social Media
Filippas, Apostolos; Horton, John J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We model social media as collections of users producing and consuming content. Users value consuming content, but doing so uses up their scarce attention, and hence they prefer content produced by more able users. Users also value receiving attention, creating the incentive to attract an...
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Social Connectedness in Urban Areas
Bailey, Michael - 2019
We use anonymized and aggregated data from Facebook to explore the spatial structure of social networks in the New York metro area. We highlight the importance of transportation infrastructure in shaping urban social networks by showingthat travel time and travel costs are substantially stronger...
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The Geographic Spread of COVID-19 Correlates with the Structure of Social Networks as Measured by Facebook
Kuchler, Theresa - 2020
We use aggregated data from Facebook to show that COVID-19 was more likely to spread between regions with stronger social network connections. Areas with more social ties to two early COVID-19 "hotspots" (Westchester County, NY, in the U.S. and Lodi province in Italy) generally had more...
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Social Networks and Housing Markets
Bailey, Michael - 2016
We document that the recent house price experiences within an individual's social network affect her perceptions of the attractiveness of property investments, and through this channel have large effects on her housing market activity. Our data combine anonymized social network information from...
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Homophily, Group Size, and the Diffusion of Political Information in Social Networks : Evidence from Twitter
Halberstam, Yosh - 2014
In this paper, we investigate political communications in social networks characterized both by homophily-a tendency to associate with similar individuals-and group size. To generate testable hypotheses, we develop a simple theory of information diffusion in social networks with homophily and...
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Competitive Job Seekers : When Sharing Less Leaves Firms at a Loss
Chiplunkar, Gaurav; Kelley, Erin M.; Lane, Gregory V. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study how job-seekers share information about jobs within their social network, and its implications for firms. We randomly increase the amount of competition for a job and find that job-seekers are: (i) less likely to share information about the job with their peers; and (ii) choose to...
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Collective Reputation in Trade : Evidence from the Chinese Dairy Industry
Bai, Jie - 2019
Collective reputation implies an important externality. Among firms trading internationally, quality shocks about one … noninspected firms. These findings highlight the importance of collective reputation in international trade and the challenges … the strength of the reputation spillover. We find that the spillover effects are smaller in destinations where people have …
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Product Recalls and Firm Reputation
Jovanovic, Boyan - 2020
Product-recall data and information on stock-price reactions to recalls are used to estimate the value of reputation in … occurs. We estimate that reputation accounts for 8.3 percent of firm value and that welfare is 26 percent of its first best …
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Variable Temptations and Black Mark Reputations
Aperjis, Christina - 2010
In a world of imperfect information, reputations often guide the sequential decisions to trust and to reward trust. We consider two-player situations where the players meet but once. One player - the truster - decides whether to trust, and the other player - the temptee - has a temptation to...
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Media Bias and Reputation
Gentzkow, Matthew - 2005
which firms slant their reports toward the prior beliefs of their customers in order to build a reputation for quality. Bias …
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