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The Effect of Deceptive Advertising on Consumption of the Advertised Good and its Substitutes: The Case of Over-the-Counter Weight Loss Products

Cawley, John; Avery, Rosemary; Eisenberg, Matthew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper is the first to estimate the impact of exposure to deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised … advertising is rampant and products are generally ineffective with potentially serious side effects. We control for the targeting … exposure to deceptive advertising is associated with a lower probability that women, and a higher probability that men, consume …

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Men Vote in Mars, Women Vote in Venus: A Survey Experiment in the Field

Galasso, Vincenzo; Nannicini, Tommaso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

of a bundle of advertising tools (videos, texts, slogans). Stark gender differences emerge. Negative advertising … reconcile the conflicting evidence on the effect of negative vs. positive advertising, as the average impact may wash out when …

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Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs

Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...

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The Economics of College Sports: Cartel Behavior vs. Amateurism

Kahn, Lawrence M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper studies intercollegiate athletics in the context of the theory of cartels. Some point to explicit attempts by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to restrict output and payments for factors of production as evidence of cartel behavior. Others argue that such limits...

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Imitation, patent protection and welfare

Mukherjee, Arijit; Pennings, Enrico - Centre for Economic Research, School of Economics and … - 2001

Once a new technology has been invented, there is a credible threat of imitation when patent protection is strong and imitation cost is low. Within the area of credible imitation, the innovator has an incentive to postpone technology adoption when the cost of imitation is relatively high. The...

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Nonlinear Pricing of Telecommunications with Call and Network Externalities

Hahn, Jong-Hee - Centre for Economic Research, School of Economics and … - 2000

This paper investigates how call and network externalities affect a monopolist’s optimal nonlinear pricing of a two-way telecommunication service. The existence of call externalities results in all types of subscribers (even the highest type) making suboptimal quantities of calls in the...

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Functional Quality Degradation of Software with Network Externalities

Hahn, Jong-Hee - Centre for Economic Research, School of Economics and … - 2000

This paper considers a functional quality degradation of software with twoway features (such as reading and writing in word-processors). A software monopolist differentiates products by introducing a functionally down-graded version (e.g. the read-only version) by eliminating some functions of...

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Damaged Durable Goods

Hahn, Jong-Hee - Centre for Economic Research, School of Economics and … - 2002

A durable-goods monopolist may use quality degradation as a commitment not to lower price in the future. The introduction of damaged goods expedites lowvaluation consumers? future demands, and helps the firm to mitigate the Coasian time-consistency problem. In such a case, damaged goods are more...

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The Welfare Effect of Quality Degradation in the Presence of Network Externalities

Hahn, Jong-Hee - Centre for Economic Research, School of Economics and … - 2001

This paper examines how the presence of network externalities affects a monopolist’s incentive for quality degradation and its welfare consequence. The software and the Internet service industries provide our primary motivation. The network externality may lead to a Pareto-improving quality...

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Durable Goods Monopoly and Product Quality

Hahn, Jong-Hee - Centre for Economic Research, School of Economics and … - 2005

This paper examines how a durable-goods monopolist’s choice of product quality interacts with time inconsistency problems in an environment, where the firm faces an irreversible decision on quality and unit production costs increase in quality. The monopolist may have incentives to choose a...

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