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public health and welfare partly depend on whether, and to what extent, advertising: 1) raises "selective" or brand … and persuasive elements. Consumer advertising is more effective at enlarging the market, educating consumers, inducing … physician contact, expanding drug treatment, and promoting adherence among existing users. Physician advertising is primarily …
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This paper analyzes the extent to which the Internet's global domain name resolution (DNS) system has preserved its …
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COVID-19 vaccines are widely available in wealthy countries, yet many people remain unvaccinated. Understanding the effectiveness -- or lack thereof -- of popular vaccination campaign strategies is therefore critical. In this paper, we report results from two studies that tested strategies...
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We examine manufacturers' decisions of whether and how to offer their products for sale over the internet …. Manufacturers that rely on promotion of their products by brick and mortar retailers must consider the possibility that internet … their products over the internet and to control the pricing of their products over the internet. We examine three categories …
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Search frictions can explain why the "law of one price" fails in retail markets and why even firms selling commodity products have pricing power. In online commerce, physical search costs are low, yet price dispersion is common. We use browsing data from eBay to estimate a model of consumer...
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Platform marketplaces can potentially steer buyers to certain sellers by recommending or guaranteeing those sellers. Money-back guarantees—which create a direct financial stake for the platform in seller performance—might be particularly effective at steering, as they align buyer and...
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We use Adobe Analytics data on online transactions for millions of products in many different categories from 2014 to 2017 to shed light on how online inflation compares to overall inflation, and to gauge the magnitude of new product bias online. The Adobe data contain transaction prices and...
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least one night at the hotel through the website. We examine differences in the distribution of reviews for a given hotel …
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Online advertising offers unprecedented opportunities for measurement. A host of new metrics, clicks being the leading … example, have become widespread in advertising science. New data and experimentation platforms open the door for firms and … researchers to measure true causal effects of advertising on a variety of consumer behaviors, such as purchases. We dissect the …
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Book Club are found to be a business stealing form of advertising that raises title level sales without increasing the …-endorsed titles by endorsed authors. These spillover demand estimates demonstrate a broad range of benefits from advertising for firms …
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