Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 399
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014422653
Cover Image
"Now that you mention it" : a survey experiment on information, salience and online privacy
Marreiros, Helia; Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael; … - 2016
problem, can affect consumers' privacy actions and attitudes. Results of two online survey experiments indicate that … paper investigates whether highlighting positive or negative aspects of online privacy, thereby mitigating the informational … informed about positive attitudes of companies towards their privacy. On the other hand, they do not change their attitudes and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428359
Cover Image
Data brokers co-opetition
Gu, Yiquan; Madio, Leonardo; Reggiani, Carlo - 2019
Data brokers collect, manage, and sell customer data. We propose a simple model, in which data brokers sell data to downstream firms. We characterise the optimal strategy of data brokers and highlight the role played by the data structure for co-opetition. If data are "sub-additive", with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011977111
Cover Image
Sorting and wage premiums in immoral work
Schneider, Florian; Brun, Fanny; Weber, Roberto A. - 2020
We use surveys, laboratory experiments and administrative labor-market data to study how heterogeneity in the perceived …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257790
Cover Image
Homophily and transmission of behavioral traits in social networks
Bhargava, Palaash; Chen, Daniel L.; Sutter, Matthias; … - 2023
about how these traits are related to social networks. Based on unique data collected using incentivized experiments on more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250002
Cover Image
Shop around and you pay more
Yan, Ji; Tian, Kun; Dixon, Huw; Heravi, Saeed M.; … - 2014
We examine the relationship between the prices paid by households and their shopping patterns measured in terms of shopping frequency and the range of stores visited. We use the TNS data which allows us to control for household heterogeneity. The main contribution of the paper is that we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010393118
Cover Image
A note on moral licensing and foot-in-the-door effect
Ulph, Alistair; Panzone, Luca; Hilton, Denis J. - 2019
Literature in economics and psychology on moral behaviour explores the contexts in which people act in ways that are … consumer behaviour. In this note we show that a simple model of rational (utility-maximising) consumer behaviour, in both … static and dynamic forms, can explain both consistent and inconsistent behaviour. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012104081
Cover Image
Switching beers? : the effects of switching costs on prices and profits in competitive markets
He, Xiaoyang; Siebert, Ralph - 2021
We consider a dynamic oligopoly on the beer market and study the differential effects of switching costs on product prices, market shares, and profits. Our demand estimation results show large differences in brand loyalty, and switching costs across customer income segments and beer brands. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510220
Cover Image
Identifying state dependence in brand choice : evidence from hurricanes
Levine, Julia; Seiler, Stephan - 2022
We analyze structural state dependence in brand choice using variation from brand switching during stock-outs caused by hurricanes. We derive a simple test for structural state dependence based on the time-series of choice persistence for households affected by the stock-outs. Using data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342887
Cover Image
International protection of consumer data
Chen, Yongmin; Hua, Xinyu; Maskus, Keith E. - 2020
) transparency or if consumers’ privacy preference differs across countries. Unilateral data regulation by each country addresses the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012238474