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How much influencer marketing is undisclosed? : evidence from Twitter
Ershov, Daniel; He, Yanting; Seiler, Stephan - 2023
We quantify the prevalence of undisclosed influencer posts on Twitter across a large set of brands based on a unique data set of over 100 million posts. We develop a novel method to detect undisclosed influencer posts and find that 96% of influencer posts are not disclosed as such. Despite...
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Linguistic metrics for patent disclosure: evidence from university versus corporate patents
Kong, Nancy; Dulleck, Uwe; Jaffe, Adam B.; Sun, Shupeng; … - 2020
computational linguistic measures are useful indicators of readability of patents, we suggest that the disclosure function of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012291859
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Too complex to digest? : federal tax bills and their processing in US financial markets
Bennani, Hamza; Neuenkirch, Matthias - 2022
characteristics of the bills in the case of the 10-year yields as a lower readability partly offsets the negative relationship for up … offsetting evidence, but only for a part of the readability measures employed in this paper. …
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Investment in broadband infrastructure under local deregulation : evidence from the UK broadband market
Fabritz, Nadine; Falck, Oliver - 2013
This paper investigates telecommunication operator investment in broadband infrastructure after local deregulation of the wholesale broadband access market. Using a panel dataset covering all 5,598 exchange areas in the United Kingdom, we exploit regional differences in deregulation following a...
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Prices vs. quantities with endogenous cost structure
Storrøsten, Halvor Briseid - 2014
Authorities often lack information for efficient regulation of the commons. This paper derives a criterion comparing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010238324
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Irreversible investments and regulatory risk
Panteghini, Paolo; Scarpa, Carlo - 2003
This paper addresses the issue of how regulatory constraints affect firm s investment choices when the firm has an option to delay investment. The RPI-x rule is compared to a profit sharing rule, which increases the x factor in case profits go beyond a given level. It is shown that a pure price...
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Investment size and firm's value under profit sharing regulation
Moretto, Michele; Panteghini, Paolo; Scarpa, Carlo - 2003
In this article we analyse the effects of different regulatory schemes (price cap and profit sharing) on a firm s investment of endogenous size. Using a real option approach in continuous time, we show that profit sharing does not affect a firm s start-up decision relative to a pure price cap...
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Network utilities in the U.S. : sector reforms without privatization
Vogelsang, Ingo - 2004
U.S. network industry reforms led other countries in the past, but have recently run into difficulties in specific areas. In particular, the U.S. telecommunications sector was hit by a deep crisis and electricity reforms suffered under the California disaster. Part of the explanation for these...
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Regulation in Swiss cantons : data for one country
Lüchinger, Simon; Schelker, Mark - 2015
In this paper, we present and illustrate novel data on more than a century of regulation in Switzerland. We provide … reflected in the annual changes to such regulation from 1908-2013. We measure the stock of regulation by the number of … heterogeneity in the stock of regulation and the amount and development of regulatory activity. Regulatory activity generally …
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The new systems competition
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2001
While the old systems competition took place with closed borders, globalisation has brought about a new type of systems competition that is driven by the mobility of factors of production. The new systems competition will likely imply the erosion of the European welfare state, induce a race to...
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