We examine how the introduction of digital cinema technologies in the South Korean movie industry created flexibility for theaters in movie showings. Using detailed data on theaters' digital adoption and daily assortment decisions between 2006-16, we show that on average digitization is...

Search engines and e-commerce platforms have substantial difficulty exposing new products to their users on account of an information problem: new products typically do not have enough sales or other user-engagement that enables platforms to reliably assess product quality. This paper evaluates...

This study shows that individuals' habits in grocery shopping are incrementally useful in predicting their credit card payment behaviors and that such incremental predictive power can translate into incremental profits for firms. Guided by prior work, we identify five broad grocery shopping...

A trend reported by both academics and practitioners is that advertising on TV has become increasingly energetic. This study investigates the association between the energy level in ad content and consumers' tendency of ad-watching or ad-avoidance. Using a data set of over 27,000 TV commercials...

The US pay television service market had been dominated by cable operators until the nationwide entry of satellite operators in the early 1990s. The latter have been consistently growing their footprints since. This study documents the role of television advertising to explain the success. Using...