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How does uncertainty affect the costs of raising finance in the bond market and via bank loans? Empirically, this paper finds that heightened uncertainty is accompanied by an increase in corporate bond yields and a decrease in bank lending rates. This finding can be explained with a model that...
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We show that firm liability structure and associated cash flow matter for firm behavior, and that financial market participants price stocks accordingly. Looking at firm level stock price changes around monetary policy announcements, we find that firms that have more cash flow exposure see their...
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advertisers and customers. The relation between advertising receipts and sales receipts, which are both complementary and … antagonist, is different if media operators impose a price or a quantity to advertisers. When consumers dislike advertising …, media operators are better off setting an advertising price than an advertising quantity. We establish a relationship …
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This paper analyzes persuasive advertising and pricing in oligopoly if firms sell differentiated products and consumers … that the demand-enhancing effect of persuasive advertising varies across consumers and increases in the average degree of … conformity. In equilibrium, both quality and cost leaders choose higher advertising intensities and charge higher prices than …
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We study consumer response towards sponsored search advertising and how to improve advertising performance on a large e … suggest that consumers dislike search advertising in our setting, but quality certificates mitigate this aversion and increase … advertising sales …
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We conduct an experiment where subjects read online news articles and are shown ads for brands next to those articles. Using eye-tracking technology, we measure the attention that each individual devotes to each article and ad. Then, respondents choose between cash or vouchers for the brands...
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advertising to acquire new customers and thereby shift demand and increase sales. In the second, they use temporarily low markups … to do so. The marketing and advertising model fits the quantity and markup moments well, and implies that successful …
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Platform interoperability is considered a powerful tool to promote competition in digital markets when network effects are at play. We study the effect of interoperability on competition between two ad-financed platforms, allowing for endogenous multi-homing of consumers. When the platforms are...
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We study the incentive of an ad-funded social media platform to curb the presence of unsafe content that entails reputational risk to advertisers. We identify conditions for the platform not to moderate unsafe content and demonstrate how the optimal moderation policy depends on the risk the...
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From marketing and advertising to political campaigning and court proceedings, contending parties expend resources to …
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