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Recent surveys in the United States and the Muslim world show widespread misinformation about the events of September 11, 2001. Using data from 9 predominantly Muslim countries, we study how such beliefs depend on exposure to news media and levels of education. Standard economic theory would...
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Is it always wise to disclose good news? When both the sender and the receiver have private information about the sender's quality, we find that the worst sender type with good news has the most incentive to disclose it, so reporting good news can paradoxically make the sender look bad. If the...
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This paper argues that advertising should be regarded as a transaction between a consumer and a firm that potentially … establish direct markets for advertising. The media is viewed as an intermediary that can channel advertising and allocate it … markets, over- or underprovision of advertising, and in an overprovision of media quality for high income consumers (relative …
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An abrupt growth, in terms of the supply of marketing degrees in Portugal, has, recently, been observed, which has … image of the institutions of undergraduate education, are presented, by highlighting the importance of the advertising push …
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This paper develops a model of pricing and advertising in a matching environment with capacity constrained sellers …. Sellers' expenditure on directly informative advertising attracts consumers only probabilistically. Consumers who happen to … maximizing advertising levels are derived and their properties analyzed, including the interplay of prices and advertising with …
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A simple Ising spin model which can describe the mechanism of advertising in a duopoly market is proposed. In contrast … via standard Monte Carlo simulations that very simple rules and inclusion of an external field - an advertising campaign …
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L'exposé présente un certain nombre d'éléments expliquant pourquoi les activités se développant sur le Net ne peuvent pas être bien appréhendées dans un contexte de concurrence parfaite, et discute la nature des barrières à l'entrée. Nous verrons que l'essentiel des changements...
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Clearinghouse models of online pricing---such as Varian (1980), Rosenthal (1980), Narasimhan (1988), and Baye-Morgan (2001)---view a price comparison site as an 'information clearinghouse' where shoppers and loyals obtain price and product information to make online purchases. These models...
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Comparative advertising by one brand against another showcases its merits versus the demerits of the other. In a two … advertising configuration, firms compete as Cournot oligopolists. In the symmetric case, equilibrium advertising constitutes a … clear welfare loss. Equilibrium advertising levels and advertising expenditures decline with rising advertising costs …
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An acceleration in the growth of communications bandwidth in use and a rapid reduction in bandwidth prices have not accompanied the U.S. economy’s strong performance in the second half of the 1990s. Overall U.S. bandwidth in use has grown robustly throughout the 1990s, but growth has not...
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