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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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advertising help answer this question? We present results from a large field experiment on Facebook and Instagram that documents … variance in advertisers' ability to generate returns to advertising. We focus on campaigns aimed at boosting sales and tie … advertising expenses to revenues for each advertiser. We find that spending on advertising led to significant increases in …
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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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television and social media advertising. We find that television outlets whose viewers watch more television charge a lower price … more male audiences on television. Also consistent with the theory, we show that social media advertising markets feature a … trends in television advertising revenue. We use the model to quantify the impact of mergers, the effect of competition on …
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in the United States to study the impacts on online purchases of naloxone, an opioid overdose reversal drug. Advertising …
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This paper studies how market competition influences the algorithmic design choices of firms in the context of targeting. Firms face the general trade-off between bias and variance when choosing the design of a supervised learning algorithm in terms of model complexity or the number of...
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We study the characteristics and behavior of small campaign donors and compare them to large donors by building a dataset including all the 340 million individual contributions reported to the U.S. Federal Election Commission between 2005 and 2020. Thanks to the reporting requirements of online...
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private benefits to firms from their advertising and the established academic wisdom for the striking magnitude of marketing …
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This paper studies the implications of attempts at "ethnic-affinity" profiling on Facebook that reflects users' engagement with content on Facebook. Profiling by ethnic-affinity is highly correlated with Census estimates of population race by geography. However, more users were profiled as...
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We examine manufacturers' decisions of whether and how to offer their products for sale over the internet …. Manufacturers that rely on promotion of their products by brick and mortar retailers must consider the possibility that internet … their products over the internet and to control the pricing of their products over the internet. We examine three categories …
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