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heterogeneous impacts of counterfeiting on the sales and consumer purchase intent related to branded products of various quality …
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What should researchers do when confronted with surprising results? Financial access innovations usually leave "temptation" spending unaffected or reduced. However, we found that promotion of savings lockboxes in a largely autarkic society increased alcohol consumption and blood pressure,...
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Using text from 200 million pages of 13,000 US local newspapers and machine learning methods, we construct a 170-year-long measure of economic sentiment at the country and state levels, that expands existing measures in both the time series (by more than a century) and the cross-section. Our...
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This paper introduces a novel measure of consumer inflation expectations: We elicit and combine inflation forecasts across categories of personal consumption expenditure to form an aggregated measure of inflation expectations. Drawing on nearly 60,000 respondents, our data comprise the early...
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We study the positive and normative effects of counterfeiting, i.e.,trademark infringement, in markets where consumers … counterfeiting: enforcement policy which increases the likelihood of confiscation of illegal items, and the imposition of a tariff on …
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counterfeiting, the proposed methodology improves the estimation of dynamic effects under heterogeneous response times by firms. We …
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under competition with non-deceptive counterfeiting and deceptive counterfeiting, respectively, as well as under monopoly … branding. A key theoretical prediction is that emerging markets can be self-corrective with respect to counterfeiting issues in …
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principles of microeconomic theory and uses aggregated product-level data to estimate counterfeiting activities in various … firm operating in 16 countries during the period 2006-2011. Our models predict larger amounts of counterfeiting in … countries with higher corruption norms, lower government control and effectiveness. Predictions of the level of counterfeiting …
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Following the Global Pharma Health Fund e.V. Minilab® protocol, we find 9.88% of samples have less than 80% of the correct active ingredient and 41.5% of these failures are counterfeits. Both product registration and chain affiliation of retailers are strong indicators of higher probability to...
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In this paper I provide a theory for brand-protection strategies to reduce counterfeiting under weak intellectual …
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