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We study a model that integrates productive and socialization efforts with network choice and parental investments. We characterize the unique symmetric equilibrium of this game. We first show that individuals underinvest in productive and social effort, but that solving only the investment...
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We study how the city system is affected by the possibility for the members of the same cultural diaspora to interact across different cities. In so doing, we propose a simple two-city model with two mobile cultural groups. A localized externality fosters the productivity of individuals when...
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Models of shrouding predict that firms lack incentives to compete on add-on prices. Working with a large Turkish bank to test SMS direct marketing promotions to 108,000 existing checking account holders, we find that messages promoting a large discount on the overdraft interest rate reduce...
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This paper examines incentives for exclusive distribution of content in the presence of advertising. A monopoly seller …-maximising choice, even when distributors also sell advertising airtime. When distributors are purely advertising-funded, however, non …-exclusive contracting may instead be preferred. Advertising revenues accruing directly to the content provider may also generate a …
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We extend the persuasion game to bring it squarely into the economics of advertising. We model advertising as exciting … consumer interest into learning more about the product, and determine a firm's equilibrium choice of advertising content over … quality information, price information, and horizontal match information. Equilibrium is unique whenever advertising is …
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Restricting advertising is one way governments seek to reduce consumption of potentially harmful goods. There have been … increasing calls to apply a similar policy to the junk food market. The effect will depend on how brand advertising influences … dynamic oligopoly supply in which multi-product firms compete in prices and advertising budgets. We model the impact of …
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This paper examines the impact of exposure to foreign media on the economic behavior of agents in a totalitarian regime. We study private consumption choices focusing on former East Germany, where differential access to Western television was determined by geographic features. Using data...
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not required to divest business holdings. We examine the evolution of advertising spending by firms over the period 1994 … advertising budget towards Berlusconi's channels when Berlusconi is in power. Indeed, we document a significant pro-Mediaset bias … in the allocation of advertising spending during Berlusconi's political tenure. This pattern is especially pronounced for …
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We find that advertising appears to have significant effects on investor flows at the industry, family and individual … fund level. At the industry level, flows are higher in months with more advertising dollars spent, even for non-advertising … families. At the family level, flows have a convex relation with advertising expenditures, similar to that for performance …
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This paper shows that an advertising ban is more likely to increase – rather than decrease – total consumption when … advertising does not bring about a large expansion of market demand at given prices and when it increases product differentiation … (thus allowing firms to command higher prices). In this case, the main impact of a ban on advertising is to reduce …
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