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Shrinking goods
Levy, Daniel C.; Snir, Avichai - 2013 - Last revision: January 22, 2013
If producers have more information than consumers about goods' attributes, then they may use non-price (rather than price) adjustment mechanisms and, consequently, the market may reach a new equilibrium even if prices don't change. We study a situation where producers adjust the quantity per...
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Debunking Misinformation : Effects on Beliefs and Purchase Behavior
Fong, Jessica; Guo, Tong; Rao, Anita - 2022
The prevalence of misinformation has spurred various interested parties--regulators, the media, and competing firms--to debunk false claims in the marketplace. This paper studies whether such debunking messages provided by these parties can impact consumer purchase behavior. If so, does...
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Kulturell bedingtes Investorenverhalten : ausgewählte Probleme des Kommunikations- und Informationsprozesses der Investor relations
Enke, Margit; Reimann, Martin - 2003
Global agierende Publikumsgesellschaften werden zunehmend mit dem spezifischen Verhalten einer kulturell diversen Investorenöffentlichkeit konfrontiert. Vor diesem Hintergrund werden in vorliegender Publikation entsprechende Hypothesen in Bezug auf ausgewählte kulturell bedingte Probleme an...
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Apparent Algorithmic Discrimination and Real-Time Algorithmic Learning
Lambrecht, Anja - 2020
An important concern is that algorithms can inadvertently discriminate against minority groups and reinforce existing inequality. Typically, the worry is that when classification algorithms are trained on a dataset that itself reflects bias this may reinforce bias. However, in the world of...
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Exploring Switching Factors for Mobile Number Portability : A Survey
Khaliq, Imran Hameed - 2017
Pakistan's mobile phone market is one of the world's fastest growing markets with a subscriber base of 137 million users. Competition in the country's telecommunication industry is dominated by four players and customer demand is high. In addition, Pakistan is the first country in South Asia to...
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Firm Internationalization from a Network-Centric Complex-Systems Perspective
Chandra, Yanto - 2017
Drawing upon the science of complexity we propose a network-centric, complex-systems internationalization (NCCSI) perspective of firm internationalization that can help us understand observed patterns of internationalization that are difficult to explain using traditional theories. While...
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Inefficiencies in Digital Advertising Markets
Gordon, Brett R. - 2020
Digital advertising markets are growing and attracting increased scrutiny. This paper explores four market inefficiencies that remain poorly understood: ad effect measurement, frictions between and within advertising channel members, ad blocking and ad fraud. These topics are not unique to...
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Mobile Advertising : Economics, Evolution and Policy
Evans, David S. - 2016
Consumers have shifted their consumption of online content dramatically from websites that they browse from a personal computer to apps that they use on mobile devices. Marketers have moved with the eyeballs, particularly since people use their smartphones much of the day and carry them wherever...
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The Institutional Design of Ecolabels : Sponsorship Signals Rule Strength
Darnall, Nicole; Ji, Hyunjung; Potoski, Matthew - 2022
Ecolabels are designed to help consumers identify environmentally superior products and services, however, they are not all created equal. Some ecolabels have strong rules that promote environmental improvements, while others have weaker rules that permit free-riding. Since information about...
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Online privacy and market structure : theory and evidence
Sabatino, Lorien; Sapi, Geza - 2019
This paper investigates how privacy regulation affects the structure of online markets. We provide a simple theoretical … model capturing the basic trade-off between the degree of privacy intrusion and the informativeness of advertising. We … derive empirically testable hypotheses regarding a possibly asymmetric effect of privacy regulation on large and small firms …
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