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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

"Closing borders is naive, the virus will come regardless" - this was the policy assumption that was repeatedly stated until mid-March by the WHO, the EU, as well as responsible authorities in Germany and other countries. Meanwhile, other states had started closing their borders to travellers...

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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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Cyclicality of SME lending and government involvement in banks

Behr, Patrick; Foos, Daniel; Norden, Lars - 2015

on financial stability and the real economy. We investigate the cyclicality of SME lending by local banks with vs … maximization and a sustainable provision of financial services to local customers. We find that banks with a public mandate are 25 … percent less cyclical than other local banks. The result is credit supply-side driven and especially strong for savings banks …

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Asymmetric credit growth and current account imbalances in the euro area

Unger, Robert - 2015

of claims of domestic banks on debtors in other euro-area countries, and an increase is expected to lead to higher …

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Multinational banks’ deleveraging in the crisis driven by pre-crisis characteristics and behavior

Frey, Rainer - 2015

After the collapse of Lehman Brothers, a rapid and far-reaching shrinkage of international banks’ assets with a focus …

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