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participation in sports for student athletes. Anecdotes about the exploitation of student athletes were cited in the opinion. This …
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The two components of the advertising industry - the creative sector that develops and produces messages, and the … communications technologies. As the media composition of advertising has changed in the last century for both local and national … advertising - from newspapers, outdoor and radio advertising to network and cable television, and most recently to internet and …
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A model is developed where traditional and digital advertising finance the provision of free media goods and affect … price competition. The economy is not efficient. Media goods are under provided. Additionally, there is too much advertising … advertising increases consumer welfare significantly and is disproportionately financed by better-off consumers. The welfare gain …
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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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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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Americans average 25.1 working hours per person in working age per week, but the Germans average 18.6 hours. The average American works 46.2 weeks per year, while the French average 40 weeks per year. Why do western Europeans work so much less than Americans? Recent work argues that these...
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Using a sample of highly (over-)leveraged Austrian ski hotels undergoing debt restructurings, we show that reducing a debt overhang leads to a significant improvement in operating performance (return on assets, net profit margin). In particular, a reduction in leverage leads to a decrease in...
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Casual empiricism suggests that deceptive advertising about product quality is prevalent, and several classes of … dynamics of deceptive advertising. Ski resorts self-report substantially more natural snowfall on weekends. Resorts that …
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This paper examines the role physical activity plays in determining body mass using data from the American Time Use Survey. Our work is the first to address the measurement error that arises when time use during a single day--rather than average daily time use over an extended period--is used as...
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rents flow to women's sports and other men's sports and lead to increased spending on facilities, coaches' salaries, and … other athletic department personnel. Using complete roster data for every student-athlete playing sports at these schools in … collective bargaining agreements in professional sports leagues as a benchmark. We also discuss how our results help understand …
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