also find that after Facebook's ban on advertising by fake new sites, the sharing of fake news articles on Facebook fell by … networks and advertising on social networks in the dissemination of false news stories about childhood vaccines. We document … that anti-vaccine Facebook groups disseminate false stories beyond the groups as well as serving as an “echo” chamber. We …

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 …

In this paper we investigate how direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising of pharmaceutical products in affected by … heavily regulated than cigarettes. Our empirical analysis uses data on advertising expenditures and data from an archive of … OTC status is associated with an increase in advertising expenditures and the number and pages of magazine advertisements …

empirical study of the impact of pharmaceutical industry advertising on smoking cessation decisions. We link survey data on … consumers that the advertisers observe, we can control for the potential endogeneity of advertising due to firms' targeting … decisions. We find that when smokers are exposed to more advertising, they are more likely to attempt to quit and are more …

The purpose of this paper is to empirically estimate the effects of alcohol advertising on adolescent alcohol … consumption. The theory of brand capital is used to explain the effects of advertising on consumption. The industry response … advertising data. The approach in this paper to maximizing the variance in advertising data is to employ cross sectional data. The …

The purpose of this paper is to empirically estimate the effect of alcohol advertising on motor vehicle fatalities. The … concept of an industry level advertising response function is developed and other empirical issues in estimating the effects … of advertising are reviewed. The data set consists of quarterly observations, from 1986 to 1989, for 75 advertising …

In this paper, we explore the hypothesis that an important force behind the collapse in advertising revenue experienced … introduce a model of the market for advertising on news media outlets whereby news outlets are modeled as competing two … equilibrium outcomes in the advertising market. One consequence is that multi-homing on the part of advertisers is heterogeneous …