Do Your Online Friends Make You Pay? A Randomized Field Experiment on Peer Influence in Online Social Networks

Ravi Bapna
Ravi Bapna
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Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
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Akhmed Umyarov
Akhmed Umyarov
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Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
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Ravi Bapna

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Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455

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Akhmed Umyarov

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Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455

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Published Online:8 Apr 2015https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2014.2081

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