[article]
Titre : |
Newspaper reports and consumer choice : Evidence from the do not call registry |
Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
Auteurs : |
Khim-Yong Goh, Auteur ; Kai-Lung Hui, Auteur ; Ivan P. L. Png, Auteur |
Année de publication : |
2011 |
Article en page(s) : |
pp. 1640-1654 |
Note générale : |
Management |
Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
Mots-clés : |
Advertising Journalism Information Persuasion Policy Publicity |
Index. décimale : |
658 Organisation des entreprises. Techniques du commerce |
Résumé : |
Despite annual expenditures on public relations exceeding $19.42 billion, U.S. businesses lack practical guidance about the effectiveness of publicity in mass media. Here, we assemble a rich and novel data set to gauge the impact of news reports on consumer sign-ups with the U.S. Do Not Call (DNC) Registry. Using multiple identification strategies, we found robust evidence that news reports increased consumer registrations. Specifically, a 1% increase in the number of news reports increased DNC registrations by 0.018%. The impact increased with mention of the toll-free telephone number and URL, but decreased with the length of the headline and main text. Furthermore, we found evidence that reports affect behavior through persuasion as well as information—the impact on registration was higher for reports that mentioned the number of other people registering. Finally, the impact of news reports on consumer registration was stronger in national than local newspapers and in politically neutral and Democrat than Republican newspapers. |
DEWEY : |
658 |
ISSN : |
0025-1909 |
En ligne : |
http://mansci.journal.informs.org/content/57/9.toc |
in Management science > Vol. 57 N° 9 (Septembre 2011) . - pp. 1640-1654
[article] Newspaper reports and consumer choice : Evidence from the do not call registry [texte imprimé] / Khim-Yong Goh, Auteur ; Kai-Lung Hui, Auteur ; Ivan P. L. Png, Auteur . - 2011 . - pp. 1640-1654. Management Langues : Anglais ( eng) in Management science > Vol. 57 N° 9 (Septembre 2011) . - pp. 1640-1654
Mots-clés : |
Advertising Journalism Information Persuasion Policy Publicity |
Index. décimale : |
658 Organisation des entreprises. Techniques du commerce |
Résumé : |
Despite annual expenditures on public relations exceeding $19.42 billion, U.S. businesses lack practical guidance about the effectiveness of publicity in mass media. Here, we assemble a rich and novel data set to gauge the impact of news reports on consumer sign-ups with the U.S. Do Not Call (DNC) Registry. Using multiple identification strategies, we found robust evidence that news reports increased consumer registrations. Specifically, a 1% increase in the number of news reports increased DNC registrations by 0.018%. The impact increased with mention of the toll-free telephone number and URL, but decreased with the length of the headline and main text. Furthermore, we found evidence that reports affect behavior through persuasion as well as information—the impact on registration was higher for reports that mentioned the number of other people registering. Finally, the impact of news reports on consumer registration was stronger in national than local newspapers and in politically neutral and Democrat than Republican newspapers. |
DEWEY : |
658 |
ISSN : |
0025-1909 |
En ligne : |
http://mansci.journal.informs.org/content/57/9.toc |
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