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The Evolution of Brand Preferences : Evidence from Consumer Migration
Bronnenberg, Bart J. - 2010
We study the long-run evolution of brand preferences, using new data on consumers' life histories and purchases of consumer packaged goods. Variation in where consumers have lived in the past allows us to isolate the causal effect of past experiences on current purchases, holding constant...
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Comovement in GDP Trends and Cycles Among Trading Partners
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2012
trend level of output. Contrary to the result for cyclical fluctuations, we find that comovement of shocks to trend levels …
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Aggregate Shocks or Aggregate Information? Costly Information and Business Cycle Comovement
Veldkamp, Laura - 2007
Synchronized expansions and contractions across sectors define business cycles. Yet synchronization is puzzling because productivity across sectors exhibits weak correlation. While previous work examined production complementarity, our analysis explores complementarity in information...
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Customer Capital
Gourio, Francois - 2011
Firms spend substantial resources on marketing and selling. Interpreting this as evidence of frictions in product …
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Market Selection
Kogan, Leonid - 2010
The hypothesis that financial markets punish traders who make relatively inaccurate forecasts and eventually eliminate the effect of their beliefs on prices is of fundamental importance to the standard modeling paradigm in asset pricing. We establish necessary and sufficient conditions for...
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Marketing Mutual Funds
Roussanov, Nikolai L. - 2018
Marketing and distribution expenses are responsible for about a third of the cost of active management in the mutual … fund industry. We develop and estimate a structural model of mutual fund marketing with learning about unobserved skill and … costly investor search. Our estimates suggest that marketing is nearly as important as performance and fees for determining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911080
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Market Penetration Costs and the New Consumers Margin in International Trade
Arkolakis, Costas - 2008
I develop a new theory of marketing costs and introduce it into a model of trade with product differentiation and firm …
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Mortality from Nestlé's Marketing of Infant Formula in Low and Middle-Income Countries
Anttila-Hughes, Jesse - 2018
Intensive and controversial marketing of infant formula is believed to be responsible for millions of infant deaths in …
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Cooperative Marketing Agreements between Competitors : Evidence from Patent Pools
Tirole, Jean - 2014
On numerous occasions, rival firms seek to market goods together, particularly in high-technology industries. This paper empirically examines one such institution: the patent pool. The analysis highlights five findings consistent with the theoretical predictions: (a) pools involving substitute...
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How Do Firms Build Market Share?
Fitzgerald, Doireann - 2018
locked in. However, it is consistent with a literature which emphasizes the importance of marketing and advertising …
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