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We examine how online customer reviews for one generation of a product affect sales of another generation in the same product series. The main intriguing result is that previous generation valence has a positive impact on current generation sales; however, current generation valence has a...
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Prior research suggests that social connections, including acquaintances, friends, and family, are valuable in a job search process. In these studies, the size of an average job seeker’s network was much smaller and limited by the available modes of communication and the costs associated with...
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's manipulation strategy is a monotonically increasing (decreasing) function of that firm's true quality, strategic manipulation of … settings where online forum manipulation benefits consumers. Second, equilibria where strategies are monotonically increasing … manipulation, is supermodular (submodular) in the firm's quality and manipulation action. Third, in a broad class of settings, if …
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We examine how firms can create word-of-mouth peer influence and social contagion by designing viral features into their products and marketing campaigns. To econometrically identify the effectiveness of different viral features in creating social contagion, we designed and conducted a...
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global warming policies. Because there are typically profound uncertainties in these models, a simulation approach is often …
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portfolios of credit-sensitive assets such as loans and corporate bonds. Monte Carlo simulation is an important tool for … performing computations in these models. This paper develops, analyzes, and evaluates two simulation algorithms for intensity … Zeevi, stochastic models and simulation.</i> …
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Sequential sampling problems arise in stochastic simulation and many other applications. Sampling is used to infer the …, as is common in the literature. <i>This paper was accepted by Assaf Zeevi, stochastic models and simulation.</i> …
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simulation experiment. We also show how different definitions of the sample space yield different variants of the LR method, some …
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the problem of using simulation to estimate the number of transitions it takes the process to enter \scr{A}. Using …
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In a discrete-event simulation, the information related to the events scheduled to occur in the future is kept in a …
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