Advertising strategy in the presence of reviews: An empirical analysis

We study the relationship between online reviews and advertising spending in the hotel industry. Combining a data set of TripAdvisor reviews with other data sets describing these hotels’ advertising expenditures, we show, first, that online ratings have a causal demand-side effect on ad spending. Se...

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Main Authors: Hollenbeck, B. (Author), Moorthy, S. (Author), Proserpio, D. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: INFORMS Inst.for Operations Res.and the Management Sciences 2019
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