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When nudges aren't enough : incentives and habit fomation in public transport usage

Gravert, Christina; Olsson Collentine, Linus - 2020

effects of the policy. While there is scope for long-term behavior change, nudging might not be the right approach. …

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When nudges fail to scale : field experimental evidence from goal setting on mobile phones

Löschel, Andreas; Rodemeier, Matthias; Werthschulte, … - 2020

Non-pecuniary incentives motivated by insights from psychology ("nudges") have been shown to be effective tools to change behavior in a variety of fields. An often unanswered question relevant for public policy is whether these promising interventions can be scaled up. In cooperation with a...

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When a nudge backfires : combining (im)plausible deniability with social and economic incentives to promote behavioral change

Bolton, Gary E.; Dimant, Eugen; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2020 - This version: January 17, 2020

Both theory and recent empirical evidence on nudging suggest that observability of behavior acts as an instrument for … promoting (discouraging) pro-social (anti-social) behavior. We connect three streams of literature (nudging, social preferences … results are informative for those who work on nudging and behavioral change, including scholars, company officials, and policy-makers. …

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Drivers of digital attention : evidence from a social media experiment

Aridor, Guy - 2022

I study demand for social media services by conducting an experiment where I monitor how participants spend time on digital services and shut off access to Instagram or YouTube on their mobile phones. I characterize how participants substitute their time during and after the restrictions, which...

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How much influencer marketing is undisclosed? : evidence from Twitter

Ershov, Daniel; He, Yanting; Seiler, Stephan - 2023

We quantify the prevalence of undisclosed influencer posts on Twitter across a large set of brands based on a unique data set of over 100 million posts. We develop a novel method to detect undisclosed influencer posts and find that 96% of influencer posts are not disclosed as such. Despite...

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Toxic content and user engagement on social media : evidence from a field experiment

Beknazar-Yuzbashev, George; Jiménez Durán, Rafael; … - 2025 - This draft: January 19, 2025

Most social media users have encountered harassment online, but there is scarce evidence of how this type of toxic content impacts engagement. In a pre-registered browser extension field experiment, we randomly hid toxic content for six weeks on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Lowering exposure...

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Online review updating : prevalence and implications for platforms and businesses

Pocchiari, Martina; Schoenmueller, Verena; Dover, Yaniv - 2024

This study documents the existence and prevalence of the “review updating” phenomenon, where consumers change the ratings and content of their existing reviews, and examines its implications for platforms and businesses. Using both primary and secondary data, a dataset comprising 3 million...

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Ad networks, consumer tracking, and privacy

D'Annunzio, Anna; Russo, Antonio - 2017 - This version: September 2017

We study the relation between ad networks, consumer privacy and the online advertising market. We consider two publishers that can outsource their ad inventories to an ad network, in a market where consumers and advertisers endogenously multi-home. Differently from publishers, the ad network...

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Advertising and content differentiation : evidence from YouTube

Kerkhof, Anna - 2020

This paper studies the effect of advertising on content differentiation on YouTube, the second-most visited website in the world. I demonstrate that an exogenous increase in the feasible advertising quantity leads to a considerable decrease in the YouTubers' probability to duplicate mainstream...

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Taxation and global spillovers in the digital advertising market : theory and evidence from Facebook

Lassmann, Andrea; Liberini, Federica; Russo, Antonio; … - 2020

We study the effects of taxation on the international online advertising market, using data on Facebook ad prices, Facebook users product preferences and international trade. Our data encompass a de facto increase in the platform's corporate tax rate in several countries. We show that, due to...

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