We use a unique dataset that combines information on advertising by subprime lenders and mortgages originated by them … from 2002 to 2007 to study the relationship between advertising and the nature of mortgages obtained by consumers. We … relationship between the intensity of local advertising and the expensiveness of mortgages extended by lenders within a given …

In May 1996 the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Rhode Island's ban on advertising prices of alcoholic beverages, making … Rhode Island the subject of a natural experiment for measuring the impact of advertising on prices. Using Massachusetts … prices as controls, we find that while advertising stores substantially cut prices of advertised products, prices of other …

the national level, of the effects of magazine advertising on ST use. The focus on magazine advertising is significant …-specific advertising information over the sample period. This allows detailed and salient measures of advertising exposure at the … these tobacco products. Sub-analyses point to some differences in the advertising and tax response across segments of the …

This paper is the first to estimate the impact of exposure to deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised … advertising is rampant and products are generally ineffective with potentially serious side effects. We control for the targeting … exposure to deceptive advertising is associated with a lower probability that women, and a higher probability that men, consume …

branding, the structure of product attributes, and several puzzling aspects of mutual fund advertising …

We examine the effect of direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) of drug treatment on an important health habit, physical …

A central challenge in estimating the causal effect of TV advertising on demand is isolating quasi-random variation in … advertising. Political advertising, which topped $14 billion in expenditures in 2016, has been proposed as a plausible source of … identify the causal effect of TV advertising on demand, highlight threats to the exclusion restriction and monotonicity …