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Ciotti, Fabrizio; Hornuf, Lars; Stenzhorn, Eliza - 2021

This article reports on an investigation of the role of lock-in exploitation and the impact of reputation portability on workers’ switching behaviors in online labor markets. Online platforms using reputation mechanisms typically prevent users from transferring their ratings to other...

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Private versus social incentives for pharmaceutical innovation

González, Paula; Macho-Stadler, Inés; … - 2015

We provide a theoretical framework to contribute to the current debate regarding the tendency of pharmaceutical companies to direct their R&D toward marketing products that are "follow-on" drugs of already existing drugs, rather than toward the development of breakthrough drugs. We construct a...

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Processing immigration shocks : firm responses on the innovation margin

Gray, Rowena; Montresor, Giulia; Wright, Greg C. - 2017

. We exploit firm-level panel data on product and process innovation activities in the United Kingdom and find that the … countries increased process innovation and reduced product innovation. This implies that the innovation response to labor supply …-skill intensity of firm production as well as firm size. In addition, the reduction in product innovation is lessened for firms whose …

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Crowdsourced innovation : how community managers affect crowd activities

Hornuf, Lars; Jeworrek, Sabrina - 2018 - This version: July 10, 2018

stimulate crowd activities through their engagement. Using a novel data set of 22 large online idea crowdsourcing campaigns, we …

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Pay what you want as a marketing strategy in monopolistic and competitive markets

Schmidt, Klaus; Spann, Martin; Zeithammer, Robert - 2014

Pay What You Want (PWYW) can be an attractive marketing strategy to price discriminate between fair-minded and selfish customers, to fully penetrate a market without giving away the product for free, and to undercut competitors that use posted prices. We report on laboratory experiments that...

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Social recognition : experimental evidence from blood donors

Götte, Lorenz; Tripodi, Egon - 2022

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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Selective sharing of news items and the political position of news outlets

Freitag, Julian; Kerkhof, Anna; Münster, Johannes - 2021

We present a new measure for the political position of news outlets based on politicians' selective sharing of news items. Politicians predominantly share news items that are in line with their political position, hence, one can infer the political position of news outlets from the politicians'...

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Detecting coverage bias in user-generated content

Kerkhof, Anna; Münster, Johannes - 2021

The importance of user-generated content is growing as media consumption is moving online; yet, investigations of media bias on user-generated content platforms are rare. We develop a novel procedure to detect coverage bias – i.e., bias in the amount of coverage certain topics or issues receive...

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The Gilets jaunes : offline and online

Boyer, Pierre C.; Delemotte, Thomas; Gauthier, Germain; … - 2020

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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Large losses from little lies : randomly assigned opportunity to misrepresent substantially lowers later cooperation and worsens income inequality

Drouvelis, Michalis; Gerson, Jennifer; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2020

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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