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Quality Certificates Alleviate Consumer Aversion to Sponsored Search Advertising

Hui, Xiang; Liu, Meng - 2022

We study consumer response towards sponsored search advertising and how to improve advertising performance on a large e-commerce platform. Our research design is based on a field experiment which randomizes the salience of ad disclosure to consumers, and a natural experiment which eradicates a...

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Taxes on Unhealthy Food and Externalities in the Parental Choice of Children's Diet

Kalamov, Zarko Y. - 2019

This paper addresses the question whether taxes on unhealthy food are suitable for internalizing intergenerational … parent, the optimal steady state tax rate on unhealthy food is strictly positive. However, it is only second best since it … not only reduces food consumption of the child but also distorts the parent's food consumption. Surprisingly, the optimal …

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Gender Roles and the Gender Expectations Gap

D'Acunto, Francesco - 2020

Expectations about macro-finance variables, such as inflation, vary significantly across genders, even within the same household. We conjecture that traditional gender roles expose women and men to different economic signals in their daily lives, which in turn produce systematic variation in...

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Effects of Precipitation on Food Consumer Price Inflation

Moessner, Richhild - 2022

We study how precipitation has affected food consumer price inflation (CPI), using dynamic panel estimation of food CPI …. We allow for nonlinear effects of precipitation on food CPI inflation, and also control for possible nonlinear effects of … temperature. We find that precipitation has significant nonlinear effects on food CPI inflation. The coefficient of food CPI …

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Chinese Aid and Democratic Values in Latin America

Freytag, Andreas; Kautz, Miriam - 2022

International economic engagement has been increasingly framed in terms of liberal democratic values. Specifically, Chinese aid has been at the center of this debate. Since Chinese aid comes with “no strings attached,” a popular narrative is that Chinese aid poses a challenge to conditional...

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Paying Them to Hate Us : The Effect of U.S. Military Aid on Anti-American Terrorism, 1968-2014

Dimant, Eugen - 2020

Does U.S. military aid make the United States safer? To answer this question, we collect data on 173 countries between 1968 and 2014. Exploiting quasi-random variation in the global patterns of U.S. military aid, our paper is the first to provide causal estimates of the effect of U.S. military...

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Chinese Aid and Health at the Country and Local Level

Cruzatti C., John - 2020

We investigate whether and to what extent Chinese development finance affects infant mortality, combining 92 demographic and health surveys (DHS) for a maximum of 53 countries and almost 55,000 sub-national locations over the 2002-2014 period. We address causality by instrumenting aid with a set...

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Can Aid Buy Foreign Public Support? Evidence from Chinese Development Finance

Wellner, Lukas; Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Parks, Bradley - 2022

Bilateral donors use foreign aid to pursue soft power. We test the effectiveness of aid in reaching this goal by leveraging a new dataset on the precise commitment, implementation, and completion dates of Chinese development projects. We use data from the Gallup World Poll for 126 countries over...

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Collusive Compensation Schemes Aided by Algorithms

Martin, Simon; Schmal, Wolfgang Benedikt - 2021

Sophisticated collusive compensation schemes such as assigning future market shares or direct transfers are frequently observed in detected cartels. We show formally why these schemes are useful for dampening deviation incentives when colluding firms are temporary asymmetric. The relative...

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The Risks of Nation-Building Through Military Aid and Intervention

Dimant, Eugen; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2022

This chapter discusses the role of military interventionism and aid in nation-building. We argue that (1) intervention strategies of foreign actors like the United States often unfavorably interact with local institutional settings, which (2) produces undesired outcomes not only for the target...

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