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David Kusterer @davidkstrr.bsky.social · Jul 12

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!

Brett Hollenbeck @bretthollenbeck.com · Jul 11

🚨Free data alert!! 🚨 Please share.

Large new dataset of Amazon product reviews, including full text and photos and product characteristics, with individual *reviews labeled as fake reviews*.

I believe this is the first publicly available data of this kind.

github.com/bretthollenb...

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David Kusterer @davidkstrr.bsky.social · Jun 30

Nice, congratulations!

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Ben Greiner @bgreiner.bsky.social · May 15

Two 6-year #PhD positions in behavioral econ, game theory & market design at WU Vienna!
Great group, vibrant research community, and one of Europe’s most livable cities. Send your best and nicest people!
🗓 Start: Sept 2025 | Deadline: May 28
🔗 tinyurl.com/wu-phd-2025

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Martina Pocchiari @martinapocchiari.com · May 22

🚨Pre-Doc and Post-Doc positions🚨

We are hiring 1 pre-doc and 1 post-doc in our "Marketing, Technology and Digital Environments" research group at #Esade. Details and deadlines in the comments:

#academicjobs #esade #marketing #AI #postdoc #predoc

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David Kusterer @davidkstrr.bsky.social · May 13

Not yet, but I will let you know once we have one. Love your work on the topic btw! Just taught our students about the market for fake reviews a couple of weeks ago.

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David Kusterer @davidkstrr.bsky.social · May 12

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!

Murat M. Tunc @muratmtunc.bsky.social · May 12

Next, David Kusterer @davidkstrr.bsky.social presents his work on fake reviews. Leveraging a lab experiment, they design a feedback system with reduced incentives for sellers to buy fake reviews. Spoiler alert: Displaying all ratings and inspection seem to reduce fake reviews. Cool project!

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David Kusterer @davidkstrr.bsky.social · Mar 23

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David Kusterer @davidkstrr.bsky.social · Mar 22

www.satellite.me ? It’s an app, you have a phone number, you make calls over the internet, 100 free minutes per month.

satellite - Die erste echte Mobilfunk-App

Warum ist deine Handynummer eigentlich immer an eine SIM-Karte gebunden? Und was könntest du machen, wenn das nicht so wäre? satellite macht es einfach möglich - jetzt kostenlos downloaden.

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David Kusterer @davidkstrr.bsky.social · Mar 21

Stark!

Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · Mar 20

Unser 1945 Archiv-Projekt gibt es ausnahmsweise auf Deutsch.

Teilt es gerne. Es ist großartig. www.economist.com/interactive/...

Archiv 1945

Wie The Economist Woche für Woche über das letzte Jahr des Zweiten Weltkriegs berichtete

www.economist.com

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David Kusterer @davidkstrr.bsky.social · Mar 3

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

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Feb 26

I'm interested in software for an interactive game theory class.

Is there a good software / web package that lets students play basic game-theoretic games (hawk-dove, PD, market entry games, etc) against one another on their phones, records the results, and presents summary statistics?

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Dave Hardisty @dhardisty.bsky.social · Jan 30

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

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Avner Strulov-Shlain 🎗️ @avnershlain.bsky.social · Nov 13

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*.

Home - Behavioral IO and Marketing

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David Kusterer @davidkstrr.bsky.social · Nov 12

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David Kusterer @davidkstrr.bsky.social · Nov 11

Have you seen this? bsky.app/profile/erin...

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · Nov 10

If you see a lot of folks replying to posts with a 📌 emoji it’s because they’re using this feed. It’s essentially a bookmark! Reply with the emoji and it pulls the post into your own private feed and saves it there for you!

Here:

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David Kusterer @davidkstrr.bsky.social · Nov 10

You’re welcome!

David Kusterer @davidkstrr.bsky.social · Nov 10

You can try bsky.app/profile/xblo...

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David Kusterer @davidkstrr.bsky.social · Nov 4

For those interested, we invite you to join us for our our PhD Virtual Open House Day on November 28 from 4 pm to 5.30 pm CET OR on November 29 from 10 am to 11.30 am CET.

David Kusterer @davidkstrr.bsky.social · Nov 4

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

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David Kusterer @davidkstrr.bsky.social · Nov 4

Congratulations Wlada, this is awesome!

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Sep 11

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-...

For Bluesky-Curious Econ Lovers - Aaron Sojourner

This Quick Start guide aims to help econ lovers easily join Bluesky’s growing economics community. The Bluesky User FAQ covers generic basics, like how to start an account. This guide orients you to e...

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Antonia Krefeld-Schwalb @krefeldschwalb.bsky.social · Oct 16

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

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Hannes Ullrich @hannesullrich.com · Jul 18

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.

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Lisa Spantig @lisaspantig.com · Jan 16

📣 I'm looking for a PhD student in Experimental Economics.

🎓 Come work with Thomas Kittsteiner and me on a full salary in our centrally located offices in Aachen (Germany)!

tinyurl.com/experimental...

or

🔃 Please forward this to anyone who might be interested.

#EconSky

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Aachen cathedral in spring (5 minutes walk from our office)

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · Jan 5

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.

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David Kusterer @davidkstrr.bsky.social · Dec 22

I am grateful for my mentors, friends, colleagues and the great time I had at the University of Cologne. Now I’m excited to meeting the terrific new colleagues in Rotterdam and to start this new chapter!

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