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Firms want to capture your attention so they can advertise their goods and services to you, seeking more sales.

Attention Markets and the Allocation of Cognitive Scarcity

When you go online, your attention is highly coveted by advertisers. There are attention markets where firms pay considerable sums to capture consumers' attention for ads. What are the economic implications of these markets?...
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Behavioural economics Market Failure Information Failure

Understanding Hyperbolic Discounting and Spending Habits During the Holidays

Published on June 18, 2025

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The Supply and Demand of Deposits: Why San Diego CD Rates Differ from the National Average

Published on June 11, 2025

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Virtual Data Rooms as market institutions

Published on June 09, 2025

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Information Failure Market Failure

Principal-Agent Theory and the Rise of ESG Reporting: Incentives, Institutions, and Regulation

Published on June 08, 2025

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Market Failure Information Failure

Principal–Agent Theory and Affiliate Fraud: Why Performance-Based Marketing Creates Opportunities for Strategic Misreporting

Published on June 07, 2025

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Transaction Cost Economics and The Demise of Wire Transfers

Published on June 06, 2025

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Information Economics and Signaling: Why Referral Marketing Works in Markets with Imperfect Information

Published on June 05, 2025

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The Market for Sustainable Goods: Pigouvian Taxation, Plastics and Waste

Published on June 03, 2025

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Managing the economy Market Failure

Tuition and Administrative Bloat: Examining the Economic Principle of Cost Disease

Published on January 01, 2025

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Market Failure

The Economic Impact of Geopolitical Risk: Insights from the War in Ukraine

Published on November 28, 2024

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Amazon vs SpaceX: Capital, Infrastructure, and the New Space Race

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