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) the effects were similar independent of video content and impression assignment strategy. However, we also found some …
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The medieval Champagne fairs are widely used to draw lessons about the institutional basis for long-distance impersonal exchange. This paper re-examines the causes of the outstanding success of the Champagne fairs in mediating international trade, the timing and causes of the fairs' decline, and...
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We use a novel dataset of online advertiser performance and product sales to quantify the medium-term economic effects of Apple's App Tracking Transparency Policy (ATT). We find that ATT significantly degraded the ability by Facebook advertisers to target advertisements based on its off-platform...
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economics literature and organize them around the three stages of the life cycle of user-generated content: (1) production, (2 …) distribution, and (3) consumption. Under production, we discuss how incentives affect content produced on and off social media and … how harmful content is moderated. Under distribution, we discuss the social network structure, algorithms, and targeted …
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analysis into articles' transition to print and podcasts suggests that increased competition may reduce media bias, indicating …
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This study investigates the effects of variation in "congeniality" of news on Facebook user engagement (likes, shares …, and comments). We compile an original data set of Facebook posts by 84 German news outlets on politicians that were … likes. The within-outlet, within-topic design allows us to infer that the greater engagement with congenial news is likely …
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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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We study the Gilets jaunes movement, which blocked most of France off in November 2018. We first analyze the complementarity/substitutability between the different forms of mobilization and find that blockades were planned online and later reinforced online activism. Second, we do textual...
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Social media has made anonymized behavior online a prevalent part of many people's daily interactions. The implications of this new ability to hide one's identity information remain imperfectly understood. Might it be corrosive to human cooperation? This paper investigates the possibility that a...
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Does social recognition motivate prosocial individuals? We run large-scale experiments among members of Italy’s main blood donors association, testing social recognition both through social media and peer groups. We experimentally disentangle visibility concerns and peer comparisons, and we...
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