through advertising in order to create new (false) needs in consumers, and, as a consequence, consumer spending rises, and so …

The welfare implications of direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) have garnered considerable attention and are … complicated since the consumer delegates some decision-making authority to the physician, who is exposed to advertising as well … roles of physician advertising on the choice of the drug …

Does hospital advertising influence patient choice and health outcomes? We examine more than 220,000 individual patient … advertising; seeing a television advertisement for a given hospital makes a patient more likely to select that hospital. We also … advertisements. Our demand model allows us to study the impact of a ban on hospital advertising, which has been recently considered …

This paper examines racial and ethnic differences in high cost mortgage lending in seven diverse metropolitan areas … lenders explains almost all of the racial and ethnic differences in high cost mortgage borrowing …