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Despite substantial efforts to help consumers search in more intuitive ways, text search remains the predominant tool for product discovery online. In this paper, we explore the effects of visual and textual cues for search refinement on consumer search and purchasing behavior. We collaborate...
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television and social media advertising. We find that television outlets whose viewers watch more television charge a lower price … more male audiences on television. Also consistent with the theory, we show that social media advertising markets feature a … trends in television advertising revenue. We use the model to quantify the impact of mergers, the effect of competition on …
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With the rise of social media and streaming platforms, firms and brand-owners increasingly depend on influencers to attract consumers, who care about both common product quality and consumer-influencer interaction. Sellers thus compete in both influencer and product markets. As outreach and...
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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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Facebook and Instagram. We first estimate advertising effectiveness at baseline across our broad sample. We then estimate the …
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advertising help answer this question? We present results from a large field experiment on Facebook and Instagram that documents … variance in advertisers' ability to generate returns to advertising. We focus on campaigns aimed at boosting sales and tie … advertising expenses to revenues for each advertiser. We find that spending on advertising led to significant increases in …
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better understand the effects of the policy, we analyze direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) and search engine click …Regression analysis shows that advertising on a prescription drug serves to increase the frequency of online search and …
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We use an experiment to test whether consumers optimally acquire information on energy costs in appliance markets where, like many contexts, consumers are poorly informed and make mistakes despite freely-available information. We find consumers acquire information suboptimally; there is little...
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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 …
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Our estimates indicate that exposure to deceptive advertising is associated with a lower probability that women, and a … better-educated individuals are more sophisticated consumers of advertising and use it to make more health …This paper is the first to estimate the impact of exposure to deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised …
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