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advertising to signal product quality. I present an equilibrium model that describes both consumers' and firms' learning and … decision-making under quality uncertainty. My model allows me to distinguish between two roles of informative advertising … advertising and social learning are two main factors for a new movie's success. The structural estimates imply that movie studios …
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In the face of demand uncertainty, a monopolist can observe sales as a controlled reaction to its price and advertising …, advertising, and information acquisition. This illustrates the firm's tradeoff of actively managing its consumer base through …
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The consumer search literature mostly considers independently distributed products. In contrast, I study a model of directed search with infinitely many products whose valuations are correlated through shared attributes. I propose a tractable, systematic, history-dependent scoring system based...
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Attention is a pivotal resource in the modern economy and plays an increasingly prominent role in economic analysis. We … summarize research on attention from both psychology and economics, placing a particular emphasis on its capacity to explain …, including attention-based utility, the recent proliferation of attentional externalities introduced by digital technology, the …
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We study the optimal targeting problem of a firm that seeks to maximize the diffusion of a product in a society where agents learn from their neighbors. The firm can seed the product to a subset of the population and our goal is to find which the optimal subset to target is. We provide a...
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Consumers’ purchase decisions can be influenced by others’ opinions, i.e., word-of-mouth (WOM), and/or others’ actions, i.e., observational learning. While information technologies are creating increasing opportunities for firms to facilitate/manage these two types of social interaction,...
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-loop system. We derive a Nash equilibrium and examine the influence of advertising. We show for the monopoly case that a reduction …
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-loop system. We derive a Nash equilibrium and examine the influence of advertising. We show for the monopoly case that a reduction … ; pricing ; advertising …
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Hotellings berühmtes "Prinzip der minimalen Differenzierung" behauptet, dass zwei Firmen, die sich miteinander in räumlichem Wettbewerb befinden, dieselbe Position wählen. Wenn man räumlichen Wettbewerb als Modellierung von Produktdifferenzierung versteht, bedeutet dieses, dass die Firmen...
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In this paper, we study an imperfect monitoring model of duopoly under similar settings as in Green and Porter (1984), but here firms do not know the demand parameters and learn about them over time through the price signals. We investigate how a deviation from rational expectations affects the...
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