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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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International Trade and Social Connectedness
Bailey, Michael - 2020
connectedness increases trade by reducing information asymmetries and by providing a substitute for both trust and formal mechanisms …
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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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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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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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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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Trust in public institutions over the business cycle
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2011
the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …We document that trust in public institutions - and particularly trust in banks, business and government - has declined … over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in …
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Behavioral Aspects of Communication in Organizations
Casoria, Fortuna - 2020
This paper reviews experimental studies that investigate the effects of communication on be-havior in organizational settings. Two main classes of studies are identified: (a) studies on coordination and competition, which include experimental research that tests whether com-munication can help...
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Intermediaries in the Online Advertising Market
D'Annunzio, Anna; Russo, Antonio - 2021
A large share of the ads displayed by digital publishers (e.g., newspapers and blogs) are sold via intermediaries (e.g., Google), that have large market power and reportedly allocate the ads in an opaque way. We study the incentives of an intermediary to disclose consumer information to...
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Attention, Recall and Purchase : Experimental Evidence on Online News and Advertising
Valletti, Tommaso; Veiga, André - 2021
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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