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Do Pharmacists Buy Bayer? Informed Shoppers and the Brand Premium
Bronnenberg, Bart J. - 2014
suggest that misinformation and related consumer mistakes explain a sizable share of the brand premium for health products …
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Measuring and Explaining Management Practices Across Firms and Countries
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from 732 medium sized manufacturing firms in the US, France, Germany and the UK. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm-level productivity, profitability, Tobin%u2019s Q, sales growth and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012752282
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Assessing the Age Specificity of Infection Fatality Rates for Covid-19 : Meta-Analysis & Public Policy Implications
Levin, Andrew T. - 2020
To assess age-specific infection fatality rates (IFRs) for COVID-19, we have conducted a systematic review of seroprevalence studies as well as countries with comprehensive tracing programs. Age-specific IFRs were computed using the prevalence data in conjunction with reported fatalities four...
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Heterogeneous Paths of Industrialization
Huneeus, Federico; Rogerson, Richard - 2022
Industrialization experiences differ substantially across countries. We use a benchmark model of structural change to shed light on the sources of this heterogeneity and, in particular, the phenomenon of premature deindustrialization. Our analysis leads to three key findings. First, benchmark...
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The Wealthy Hand-to-Mouth
Kaplan, Greg - 2014
Spain to document the share of such households across countries, their demographic characteristics, the composition of their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054868
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Digitization and Pre-Purchase Information : The Causal and Welfare Impacts of Reviews and Crowd Ratings
Xie, Claire - 2020
Digitization has led to product proliferation, straining traditional institutions for product discovery; but digitization has also spawned crowd-based rating systems. We compare the relative impacts of professional critics and crowd-based Amazon star ratings on consumer welfare in book...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840849
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Inflation Expectations, Learning and Supermarket Prices
Cavallo, Alberto - 2014
Information frictions play a central role in the formation of household inflation expectations, but there is no consensus about their origins. We address this question with novel evidence from survey experiments. We document two main findings. First, individuals in lower-inflation contexts have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045642
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Misinformation During a Pandemic
Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2020
Media outlets often present diverging, even conflicting, perspectives on reality — not only informing, but potentially misinforming audiences. We study the extent to which misinformation broadcast on mass media at the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic influenced health outcomes. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830479
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Consumer Behavior and Immigrant Assimilation : a Comparison of the United States, Britain and Germany, 1889/1890
Haines, Michael R. - 2022
This paper utilizes household-level budget data from the 1889/90 United States Commissioner of Labor survey to estimate the full Almost Ideal Demand System with demographic and other covariates. Price data were obtained from the Aldrich Report of 1892. The purpose is to make better use of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013309366
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Automobile Brand Preferences : Empirical Evidence and Implications for Firm Strategy
Anderson, Soren T. - 2013
We document a strong correlation in the brand of automobile chosen by parents and their adult children, using data from … the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. This correlation could represent transmission of brand preferences across generations …, or it could result from correlation in family characteristics that determine brand choice. We present a variety of …
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