Showing 1 - 10 of 456
We conduct an experiment where subjects read online news articles and are shown ads for brands next to those articles …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235099
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 listing-level quality certificate for all listings because of a system glitch. Results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014078201
if advertising markets are sufficiently thick. In turn, we study how disclosure affects the incentives of publishers to … competitiveness of advertising markets and the ability of platforms to profile consumers. We show that, even when most consumers multi …-home, the publishers may be worse off by outsourcing to the intermediary, in particular if they operate in thin advertising …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218290
In this paper, we analyse the effects of a unilateral change in an emissions tax in a model of international trade with heterogeneous firms. We find a positive effect of tighter environmental policy on average productivity in the reforming country through reallocation of labour towards exporting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866556
Is green consumerism beneficial to the environment and the economy? To shed light on this question, we study the political economy of environmental regulations in a model with neutral and green consumers where the latter derive some warm glow from buying a good of higher environmental quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826061
very low costs of cancelling an initiated purchase process. In a field experiment with more than 34,000 consumers, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892110
Non-pecuniary incentives motivated by insights from psychology (“nudges”) have been shown to be effective tools to change behavior in a variety of fields. An often unanswered question relevant for public policy is whether these promising interventions can be scaled up. In cooperation with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825397
costs. We provide the first evidence on consumer valuation of fuel economy from a natural experiment. We examine the short …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866390
Reporting private information is a key part of economic decision making. A recent literature has found that many people have a preference for honest reporting, contrary to usual economic assumptions. In this paper, we investigate whether preferences for honesty are malleable and what determines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013231961
We use an experiment to test whether consumers optimally acquire information on energy costs in appliance markets where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358835