A big obstacle of studying fake reviews is that the ground truth is missing. Which review is fake and which is organic? Brett and coauthors provide a dataset that contains the ground truth for individual reviews using a novel method developed over several papers. A really valuable resource!

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This week, I am happy to present our fake review project at the Tilburg/Rotterdam Workshop on Digital Markets. Such a great group with constructive feedback. Thanks for organizing!

Stark!

Want to run (economic) experiments in your classroom? Follow this thread for nice software recommendations!

Are you running AB testing studies on Facebook or Google? Or reviewing papers using them? Check out our open access paper, On the Persistent Mischaracterization of Google and Facebook A/B Tests: How to Conduct and Report Online Platform Studies at doi.org/10.1016/j.ij... @boegershausen.bsky.social

CALL FOR PAPERS 📈📉 The Behavioral IO and Marketing Symposium (biomsymposium.org) will be held on 5/15-16 at UMichigan. This is an opportunity for IO and Quantitative Marketing researchers working on behavioral economics topics to interact. Submit to [email protected] by *December 15, 2024*.

Interested in doing a marketing PhD? Come work with us! The marketing group at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University seeks highly motivated PhD students looking to study topics in marketing (quant or CB). More info: www.rsm.nl/about-rsm/wo... #marketingsky #econsky #marketing

For Bluesky-Curious Econ Lovers, a Quick Start guide to plugging into the economics community here. It aims to lower the costs & boost the benefits for folks to engage here. If it seems useful, please share it here & especially on X. 📉📈 #️⃣#️⃣ aaronsojourner.org/for-bluesky-...

Looking for a #postdoc Starting date is soon!! Here‘s a broad description of the project www.rsm.nl/news/detail/.... The postdoc will be mainly involved in designing and testing the label in lab and field studies! @sjdm-tweets.bsky.social

Finally out, with Luis Aguiar, Tomaso Duso, Jonas Hannane, and Christian Peukert! Returns to Data: Evidence from Web Tracking diw.de/documents/pu... #Webtracking data are essential for consumer profiling that enables targeted advertising & content delivery. 1/6

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Since their rollout, I have made heavy use of the custom GPT tools in ChatGPT. Here is a thread of some of the tools that I use regularly (all of them require ChatGPT 4). I think they are most useful for people doing quantitative social science, but some are more general.

Some exciting personal news I’ve been sitting on for a while: In January 2024, I will start as an AP in Marketing Management at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam!

On my way to U Paderborn to present „Social Preferences and the Informativeness of Subjective Performance Evaluations“ in the Research Seminar on Economics and Management. Looking forward to interesting discussions with the group there!