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To Pay or Autopay? Fintech Innovation and Credit Card Payments
Wang, Jialan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Digital technologies and fintech firms have rapidly reshaped the consumer financial landscape in recent years, and have the potential to help consumers make better decisions and improve their financial health. Existing technologies such as autopay are also experiencing increased takeup, a trend...
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Do Firms Use Coupons and In-store Discounts to Strategically Market Experience Goods Over the Consumption Life-Cycle? The Case of Cigarettes
Sfekas, Andrew - 2013
Cigarettes are experience goods - most of their utility value only gets revealed when one consumes them. We hypothesize a three phase consumer life cycle for experience goods. Consumers initially do not know their utility from the good or their preferences for particular characteristics, and may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459352
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Does Religion Affect Economic Growth and Happiness? Evidence from Ramadan
Campante, Filipe R. - 2013
central tenets of Islam. To establish causality, we exploit variation in the length of the fasting period due to the rotating … Islamic calendar. We report two key, quantitatively meaningful results: 1) longer Ramadan fasting has a negative effect on …
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Missing Discussions : Institutional Constraints in the Islamic Political Tradition
Gitmez, A. Arda; Robinson, James A.; Shadmehr, Mehdi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
new puzzle: such an intellectual tradition did not exist in the Islamic world, even if the potential for abuse was … Islamic law (the Sharia) being far more encompassing than Western law, making it easier for citizens to identify abuses of … power and use collective action to discipline them. We study how the relative homogeneity and solidarity of Islamic society …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226113
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Designing Institutions to Deal with Terrorism in the United States
Feldstein, Martin S. - 2008
The explosion in the 21st century of terrorist activities by Islamic radicals in the United States, Europe and Asia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464918
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What Do Consumers Believe About Future Gasoline Prices?
Anderson, Soren T. - 2011
A full understanding of how gasoline prices affect consumer behavior frequently requires information on how consumers forecast future gasoline prices. We provide the first evidence on the nature of these forecasts by analyzing two decades of data on gasoline price expectations from the Michigan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461678
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Automating Automaticity : How the Context of Human Choice Affects the Extent of Algorithmic Bias
Agan, Amanda Y.; Davenport, Diag; Ludwig, Jens; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Consumer choices are increasingly mediated by algorithms, which use data on those past choices to infer consumer preferences and then curate future choice sets. Behavioral economics suggests one reason these algorithms so often fail: choices can systematically deviate from preferences. For...
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The Political Economy of a "Miracle Cure" : The Case of Nebulized Ibuprofen and its Diffusion in Argentina
Calónico, Sebastian; Di Tella, Rafael; Lopez del … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We document the diffusion of nebulized ibuprofen in Argentina as a treatment for COVID-19. As the pandemic spread, this clinically unsupported drug reached thousands of patients, even some seriously ill, despite warnings by the regulator and medical societies. Detailed daily data on deliveries...
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Why Do We Dislike Inflation?
Stantcheva, Stefanie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper provides new evidence on a long-standing question asked by Shiller (1997): Why do we dislike inflation? I conducted two surveys on representative samples of the US population to elicit people's perceptions about the impacts of inflation and their reactions to it. The predominant...
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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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