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Remittances, banking status and the usage of insurance schemes

Crayen, Dorothee; Hainz, Christa; Ströh de Martínez, … - 2010

can be used to self-insure, substituting for both formal and informal insurance. We investigate this question using a … remittances, which supports the idea that remittances act as (self-) insurance. We also show that purchasing formal funeral cover … is influenced by other risk management strategies and that determinants of informal insurance differ from those of formal …

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Deterrence through word of mouth

Rincke, Johannes; Traxler, Christian - 2009

The deterrent effect of law enforcement rests on the link between the actual and the perceived detection risk. We study the role of word of mouth for this linkage. Our approach makes use of micro data on compliance with TV license fees allowing us to distinguish between households who have been...

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Taxation and global spillovers in the digital advertising market : theory and evidence from Facebook

Lassmann, Andrea; Liberini, Federica; Russo, Antonio; … - 2020

We study the effects of taxation on the international online advertising market, using data on Facebook ad prices, Facebook users product preferences and international trade. Our data encompass a de facto increase in the platform's corporate tax rate in several countries. We show that, due to...

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Platform design and innovation incentives : evidence from the product ratings system on Apple's App Store

Leyden, Benjamin T. - 2021

A lack of platform-level competition among digital marketplaces can result in socially inefficient platform design and meaningful welfare losses, even independent of actively anticompetitive behavior. To illustrate the first-order effects platform design can have on competitive outcomes, I...

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Vax populi : the social costs of online vaccine skepticism

Giaccherini, Matilde; Kopinska, Joanna; Rovigatti, Gabriele - 2022 - Original version: December 2022, this version: March 2023

This paper quantiﬁes the impact of online vaccine skepticism on pediatric vaccine uptake and health outcomes. We propose a novel methodology that combines Natural Language Processing and an instrumental variable strategy that leverages the intransitivity of the social network's connections. By...

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Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? : a nationwide field experiment on Facebook

Adena, Maja; Hager, Anselm - 2024

Does online fundraising increase charitable giving? Using the Facebook advertising tool, we implemented a natural field experiment across Germany, randomly assigning almost 8,000 postal codes to Save the Children fundraising videos or to a pure control. We studied changes in the donation revenue...

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Experiments on social media

Aridor, Guy; Jiménez Durán, Rafael; Levy, Ro’ee; … - 2024

We provide a practical guide to designing, conducting, and analyzing experiments using social media platforms. First, we discuss the benefits and challenges of using the targeting capabilities of advertisements on social media to recruit participants for a large class of experiments. Next, we...

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Who is AI replacing? : the impact of generative AI on online freelancing platforms

Demirci, Ozge; Hannane, Jonas; Zhu, Xinrong - 2024

This paper studies the impact of Generative AI technologies on the demand for online freelancers using a large dataset from a leading global freelancing platform. We identify the types of jobs that are more affected by Generative AI and quantify the magnitude of the heterogeneous impact. Our...

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Guaranteed renewable life insurance under demand uncertainty

Hoy, Michael; Mirza, Afrasiab; Sadanand, Asha B. - 2018

Guaranteed renewability is a prominent feature in many health and life insurance markets. It is well established in the … fair price for low risk types provides full insurance against reclassification risk. We develop a model that includes … unpredictable (and unobservable) fluctuations in demand for life insurance as well as changes in risk type (observable) over …

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Redistribution and insurance with simple tax instruments ; presented at CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, April 2015

Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2015

provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is … capital tax is non-zero and trades off redistribution and insurance against savings distortions. Our quantitative results … reveal that the insurance component contributes significantly to optimal labor tax rates and provides an informative lower …

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