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As U.S. corporate profit margins have made it to record highs, a debate has raged between those who place their hopes on a new paradigm of sustained high profits and those who believe in capitalism's efficiency and the tendency of margins to revert to the mean. Using a bottoms-up analysis...
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unprecedented precision. We assess the effects of such political micro-targeting by exploiting daily advertising prices on Facebook …
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We study the effect of price caps on the provision of costly effort by pharmaceutical firms using variation in drug discounts generated by a price regulation program that allows eligible hospitals to purchase outpatient drugs at steep discounts. These discounts directly affect drug...
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We examine how political corruption affects advertising spending. According to agency theory, managers of firms have a … cash for bribery. However, when it comes to advertising spending, based on a two stage least square estimation method, we … find firms whose headquarters are in more corrupt states invest less in advertising than their peers whose headquarters are …
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article examines the impact of advertising on the demand for nonalcoholic beverages in the United States. We employed an AIDS … (almost ideal demand system) model of five jointly estimated equations that included advertising expenditures as explanatory … variables to evaluate annual U.S. consumption of nonalcoholic beverages for 1974 through 2005. Results suggest that advertising …
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estimates the own- and cross-advertising elasticities in addition to price elasticities. Positive and negative cross-advertising … elasticities imply the presence of both cooperative and predatory effects of advertising expenditures across brands; however, the … former effect appears to dominate suggesting that advertising increases the overall demand for beer. We discuss the …
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formation and the role of advertising for cigarettes, little cigars/cigarillos, large cigars, e-cigarettes, and smokeless …-cigarettes may serve as a gateway to nicotine addiction but not necessarily to cigarette smoking. As to advertising, cigarette … magazine advertising did not affect cigarette demand while e-cigarettes’ TV advertising increased e-cigarettes demand with …
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television and social media advertising. We find that television outlets whose viewers watch more television charge a lower price … more male audiences on television. Also consistent with the theory, we show that social media advertising markets feature a … trends in television advertising revenue. We use the model to quantify the impact of mergers, the effect of competition on …
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I analyze a data set on the characteristics of 399 US presidential TV ads for seventeen election campaigns, 1952-2016, by modelling their impact on the probability of the candidate favored in each ad winning the presidential election to which the ad relates. Certain emotional variables are found...
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The information and communications revolution has hastened the process of globalization in today's world of business. Consequently, businesses, even small and mid-sized companies, are confronted with cultural diversity when these companies become internationally active. Yet only few businesses...
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