How does the increasing publicness of decisions (due, e.g., to social media) affect the total costs of social signaling distortions? While pervasive signaling may induce pervasive distortions, it may also permit people to signal while distorting each choice to a smaller degree. Ironically, for a...

We study the impact of gender norms on the distribution of paid and unpaid labor between women and men in an intra-household bargaining model featuring endogenous social norms. In contrast to the previous literature, which assumes a homogeneous social norm, agents are connected via explicitly...

The emergence of Academic Social Networking Sites (ASNS) has changed the way of scholarly communication. Each of these ASNS brings unique feature for the researchers. The authors study the awareness and use pattern of full-time research scholars of NITK through a survey-based study. The present...

This research investigates the creation of online social capital among members of the rural maritime community. The major goal of this study is to determine how much the maritime community uses online networking and how social capital grows within the community via the internet. In-depth...

The advancement of conversational AI techniques is driving the rise of chatbot applications in various fields. Pioneering business studies have examined the effects of functional chatbots for specific business tasks, such as customer service. This study extends the business literature by...