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Does High Frequency Social Media Data Improve Forecasts of Low Frequency Consumer Confidence Measures?

Lehrer, Steven F. - 2019

Social media data presents challenges for forecasters since one must convert text into data and deal with issues related to these measures being collected at different frequencies and volumes than traditional financial data. In this paper, we use a deep learning algorithm to measure sentiment...

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Peer Effects in Product Adoption

Bailey, Michael - 2019

the same brand, most of which is concentrated on the particular model purchased by the friend. We provide evidence that … cell phones, a friend's purchase of a new phone of a particular brand can reduce individuals' own demand for phones from …

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Brand Loyalty, Generic Entry and Price Competition in Pharmaceuticals in the Quarter Century after the 1984 Waxman-Hatch Legislation

Berndt, Ernst R. - 2014

. Recent studies sponsored by the American Association of Retired Persons focus only on brand prices and ignore substitution to …

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Does Information Undermine Brand? Information Intermediary Use and Preference for Branded Web Retailers

Waldfogel, Joel; Chen, Lu - 2021

Investments in brand provide one method for vendors to become known and convince potential customers that vendors will … their commitments can serve a similar function and may undermine investments in brand. This study uses a 13-month panel … whether information use undermines brand. We find that individuals who take up using price comparison sites reduce their …

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Do Pharmacists Buy Bayer? Informed Shoppers and the Brand Premium

Bronnenberg, Bart J. - 2014

suggest that misinformation and related consumer mistakes explain a sizable share of the brand premium for health products …

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Counterfeiters : Foes or Friends? How Do Counterfeits Affect Different Product Quality Tiers?

Qian, Yi - 2011

advertising effects for a brand and substitution effects for authentic products, additionally the effects linger for some years …

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Customer Capital

Gourio, François - 2011

Firms spend substantial resources on marketing and selling. Interpreting this as evidence of frictions in product markets, which require firms to spend resources on customer acquisition, this paper develops a search theoretic model of firm dynamics in frictional product markets. Introducing...

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Measuring Customer Churn and Interconnectedness

Baker, Scott - 2020

This paper demonstrates that it is possible to construct accurate pictures of firm revenue, growth, geographic dispersion, and customer base characteristics using an increasingly accessible class of consumer financial transaction data. We develop two new measures which characterize firms'...

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Ideological Segregation Among Online Collaborators : Evidence from Wikipedians

Greenstein, Shane M. - 2016

Do online communities segregate into separate conversations about “contestable knowledge”? We analyze the contributors of biased and slanted content in Wikipedia articles about U.S. politics, and focus on two research questions: (1) Do contributors display tendencies to contribute to topics...

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Threats to Central Bank Independence : High-Frequency Identification with Twitter

Bianchi, Francesco - 2019

This paper presents market-based evidence that President Trump influences expectations about monetary policy. We use tick-by-tick fed funds futures data and a collection of Trump tweets criticizing the conduct of monetary policy and consistently advocating that the Fed lower interest rates....

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