Claussen, Jörg; Engelstätter, Benjamin; Ward, Michael R. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
Peer influence through word-of-mouth (WOM) plays an important role in many information systems but identification of causal effects is challenging. We identify causal WOM effects in the empirical setting of game adoption in a social network for gamers by exploiting differences in individuals'...