594. Your Brand’s Spokesperson Just Got Arrested — Now What?
It’s hard to know whether the benefits of hiring a celebrity are worth the risk. We dig into one gruesome story of an endorsement gone wrong, and find a surprising result.
- SOURCES:
- John Cawley, professor of economics at Cornell University.
- Elizabeth Johnson, executive director and senior fellow with the Wharton Neuroscience Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania.
- Alvin Roth, professor of economics at Stanford University.
- RESOURCES:
- "Kanye and Adidas: Money, Misconduct and the Price of Appeasement," by Megan Twohey .
- "The Role of Repugnance in Markets: How the Jared Fogle Scandal Affected Patronage of Subway," by John Cawley, Julia Eddelbuettel, Scott Cunningham, Matthew D. Eisenberg, Alan D. Mathios, and Rosemary J. Avery .
- "How Celebrity Status and Gaze Direction in Ads Drive Visual Attention to Shape Consumer Decisions," by Simone D'Ambrogio, Noah Werksman, Michael L. Platt, and Elizabeth Johnson .
- "Consumer Responses to Firms’ Voluntary Disclosure of Information: Evidence from Calorie Labeling by Starbucks," by Rosemary Avery, John Cawley, Julia Eddelbuettel, Matthew D. Eisenberg, Charlie Mann, and Alan D. Mathios .
- "Consumer Heterogeneity and Paid Search Effectiveness: A Large Scale Field Experiment," by Thomas Blake, Chris Nosko, and Steven Tadelis .
- "The Economics of Obesity," by John Cawley .
- "Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets," by Alvin Roth .
- EXTRAS:
- "Does Advertising Actually Work? ," by Freakonomics Radio .
- "Does Advertising Actually Work? ," by Freakonomics Radio .
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