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Fake News and Advertising on Social Media : A Study of the Anti-Vaccination Movement
Chiou, Lesley - 2018
75% on Facebook compared to Twitter … that anti-vaccine Facebook groups disseminate false stories beyond the groups as well as serving as an “echo” chamber. We … also find that after Facebook's ban on advertising by fake new sites, the sharing of fake news articles on Facebook fell by …
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The Impact of Large-Scale Social Media Advertising Campaigns on COVID-19 Vaccination : Evidence from Two Randomized Controlled Trials
Ho, Lisa; Breza, Emily; Alsan, Marcella; Banerjee, … - 2022
Facebook users in the US and 11.5 million in France. In both countries, we cannot reject the null of no effect of any of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014240719
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The Geographic Spread of Covid-19 Correlates with the Structure of Social Networks as Measured by Facebook
Kuchler, Theresa - 2020
We use aggregated data from Facebook to show that COVID-19 was more likely to spread between regions with stronger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837185
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Social Connectedness in Urban Areas
Bailey, Michael - 2019
We use anonymized and aggregated data from Facebook to explore the spatial structure of social networks in the New York …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867065
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Social Networks and Housing Markets
Bailey, Michael - 2016
anonymized social network information from Facebook with housing transaction data and a survey. We first show that in the survey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012991691
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Homophily, Group Size, and the Diffusion of Political Information in Social Networks : Evidence from Twitter
Halberstam, Yosh - 2015
US elections in a social network of 2.2 million politically-engaged Twitter users. Consistent with the model, we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013031823
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Is Bitcoin a Real Currency? An Economic Appraisal
Yermack, David - 2013
A bona fide currency functions as a medium of exchange, a store of value, and a unit of account, but bitcoin largely fails to satisfy these criteria. Bitcoin has achieved only scant consumer transaction volume, with an average well below one daily transaction for the few merchants who accept it....
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Measuring Social Connectedness
Bailey, Michael - 2017
links on Facebook, the world's largest online social networking service. Within the U.S., social connectedness is strongly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951350
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What Can We Learn from Euro-Dollar Tweets?
Gholampour, Vahid - 2017
profitability of trading based on Twitter Sentiment. We develop a detailed lexicon used by FX traders to translate verbal tweets … ratio from a trading strategy based on Twitter Sentiment. The Sharpe ratio outperforms that based on the well-known carry …
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Fintech and Household Resilience to Shocks : Evidence from Digital Loans in Kenya
Bharadwaj, Prashant - 2019
Developing country lenders are taking advantage of fintech tools to create fully digital loans on mobile phones. Using administrative and survey data, we study the take up and impacts of one of the most popular digital loan products in the world, M-Shwari in Kenya. While 34% of those eligible...
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