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The Geographic Spread of COVID-19 Correlates with Structure of Social Networks as Measured by Facebook
Kuchler, Theresa - 2020
We use anonymized and aggregated data from Facebook to show that areas with stronger social ties to two early COVID-19 "hotspots" (Westchester County, NY, in the U.S. and Lodi province in Italy) generally have more confirmed COVID-19 cases as of March 30, 2020. These relationships hold after...
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Selection, Consumption, and New Music Exploration in an Online Social Network : A Dyadic Approach
Loh, Johannes - 2022
We study peer influence in an online social network on a platform where consumers purchase music albums. They can follow their peers and become informed about their consumption choices. In particular, we are interested in how this affects consumers’ exploration of new music that exhibits...
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ICT, Collaboration, and Science-Based Innovation: Evidence from BITNET
Wernsdorf, Kathrin; Nagler, Markus; Watzinger, Martin - 2020
Does access to information and communication technologies (ICT) increase innovation? We examine this question by …
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International Trade and Social Connectedness
Bailey, Michael - 2020
We use anonymized data from Facebook to construct a new measure of the pairwise social connectedness between 180 countries and 332 European regions. We find that two countries trade more with each other when they are more socially connected and when they share social connections with a similar...
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Politics in the Facebook Era - Evidence from the 2016 US Presidential Elections
Liberini, Federica - 2020
Through social media, politicians can personalize their campaigns and target specific groups of voters with an unprecedented precision. We assess the effects of such political micro-targeting by exploiting daily advertising prices on Facebook during the 2016 US presidential campaign. We measure...
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Global Spillovers of Taxation in the Online Advertising Market. Theory and Evidence from Facebook
Lassmann, Andrea - 2020
We analyze the effect and welfare implications of taxing multinational digital platforms on the global online advertising market. Using a novel dataset on advertising prices and product preferences of users from Facebook in OECD countries, jointly with international trade data, we show that an...
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Symptom or Culprit? Social Media, Air Pollution, and Violence
Du, Xinming - 2023
This paper provides the first causal evidence that hostile activities online lead to physical violence. Given the recently documented relationship between pollution and social media, I exploit exogenous variation in local air quality as the first step to instrument for online aggression. In an...
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Agency and communication in IMF conditional lending: theory and empirical evidence
Marchesi, Silvia; Sabani, Laura; Dreher, Axel - 2009
We focus on the role that the transmission of information between a multilateral (the IMF) and a country has for the optimal design of conditional reforms. Our model predicts that when agency problems are especially severe, and/or IMF information is valuable, a centralized control is indeed...
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Long persuasion games
Forges, Françoise; Koessler, Frédéric - 2006
This paper characterizes geometrically the set of all Nash equilibrium payoffs achievable with unmediated communication …
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Does central bank communication really lead to better forecasts of policy decisions? : new evidence based on a Taylor rule model for the ECB
Sturm, Jan-Egbert; de Haan, Jakob - 2009
central bank actions. We examine whether communication by the European Central Bank (ECB) adds information compared to the … ECB communication that are all based on the ECB President's introductory statement at the press conference following an … included in our Taylor rule model, the ECB communication indicators remain significant. …
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