Arbeitspapier
Quality Certificates Alleviate Consumer Aversion to Sponsored Search Advertising
We study consumer response towards sponsored search advertising and how to improve advertising performance on a large e-commerce platform. Our research design is based on a field experiment which randomizes the salience of ad disclosure to consumers, and a natural experiment which eradicates a listing-level quality certificate for all listings because of a system glitch. Results suggest that consumers dislike search advertising in our setting, but quality certificates mitigate this aversion and increase advertising sales.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 9886
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
- Thema
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sponsored search advertising
quality certificates
e-commerce
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Hui, Xiang
Liu, Meng
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
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Munich
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2022
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Hui, Xiang
- Liu, Meng
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Entstanden
- 2022