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Truly costly search and word-of-mouth communication
Atayev, Atabek - 2021
In markets with search frictions, consumers can acquire information about goods either through costly search or from friends via word-of-mouth (WOM) communication. How do sellers’ market power react to a very large increase in the number of consumers’ friends with whom they engage in WOM?...
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Information acquisition and diffusion in markets
Atayev, Atabek; Janssen, Maarten C. W. - 2021
Consumers can acquire information through their own search efforts or through their social network. Information diffusion via word-of-mouth communication leads to some consumers free-riding on their “friends” and less information acquisition via active search. Free-riding also has an...
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Home alone : widows' well-being and time
Adena, Maja; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Myck, Michał; … - 2021
Losing a partner is a life-changing experience. We draw on numerous datasets to examine differences between widowed and partnered older women and to provide a comprehensive picture of well-being in widowhood. Most importantly, our analysis accounts for time use in widowhood, an aspect which has...
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Combating online hate speech : the impact of legislation on Twitter
Andres, Raphaela; Slivko, Olga - 2021
We analyze the impact of the Network Enforcement Act, the first regulation which aims at restraining hate speech on large social media platforms. Using a difference-in- differences framework, we measure the causal impact of the German law on the prevalence of hateful content on German Twitter....
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A virus that knows no borders? Exposure to and restrictions of international travel and the global diffusion of COVID-19
Koopmans, Ruud - 2020
states had started closing their borders to travellers from high-risk countries or to introduce mandatory quarantines. On 17 …
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Home alone : widows' well-being and time
Adena, Maja; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Myck, Michał; … - 2023
Using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE, 2004-17) and time diaries from Poland (2013), the U.S. (2006-16), the U.K. (2014-15) and France (2009-10), we examine differences between widowed and partnered older women in well-being and its development in...
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Mapping employee mobility and employer networks using professional network data
Breithaupt, Patrick; Hottenrott, Hanna; Rammer, Christian; … - 2023 - This version: September 15, 2023
The availability of social media data is growing and represents a new data source for economic research. This paper presents a detailed study on the use of data from a careeroriented social networking platform for measuring employee flows and employer networks. The employment data are exported...
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Current account deficits during heightened risk : menacing or mitigating?
Forbes, Kristin; Hjortsoe, Ida; Nenova, Tsvetelina - 2016
's vulnerability to periods of heightened risk and uncertainty. This paper develops a framework to evaluate such vulnerabilities. It … and explore how they are affected by domestic and global risk. We apply this framework to ten OECD economies, showing the … Kingdom, show that a substantial degree of international risk sharing can occur through current accounts and international …
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Risk, time pressure, and selection effects
Kocher, Martin; Schindler, David; Trautmann, Stefan T.; … - 2018
Time pressure is a central aspect of economic decision making nowadays. It is therefore natural to ask how time pressure affects decisions, and how to detect individual heterogeneity in the ability to successfully cope with time pressure. In the context of risky decisions, we ask whether a...
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Tax evasion and the risk averse tax collector
Kraizberg, Elli; Tzur, Joseph - 1993
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