Social platforms are currently encountering a set of burning issues: low ad conversion rates, cross-channel free-riding phenomena, lack monetary incentives to retain premium content creators, etc. Direct purchase behaviors between social platform users (e.g., making direct through seller's promotional post) can largely resolve these problems. Therefore, it is imperative study the factors that i...

Enhancing the speed and competition in an exhibition of services and products motivated the companies to provide high-quality products to the customers. One of the effective strategies to reach these goals is to create working groups. These groups can help the companies to improve the quality and exposure of their services along with reducing the costs. This approach is applicable in the health...

Abstract Vote buying is a form of political clientelism involving pre-electoral transfers money or material benefits from candidates to voters. Despite the presence secret ballots, vote remains pervasive phenomenon during elections in developing countries. While prior literature has focused on how enforced by parties and which types voters are most likely targeted, we know much less about behav...

We examine the consequences of lobbying and vote buying, assuming this practice were allowed and free of stigma. Two “lobbyists” compete for the votes of legislators by o¤ering up-front payments to the legislators in exchange for their votes. We analyze how the lobbyists’budget constraints and legislator preferences determine the winner and the payments. JEL classi…cation numbers: P16, C72 Keyw...