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Experts, Information, Reviews, and Coordination: Evidence on How Prizes Affect Sales

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  • Nicolas Lagios
  • Pierre-Guillaume Méon

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Exploiting the award process, we implement a regression discontinuity design to estimate the effect of winning France's main literary prize, the Goncourt. It increases sales, especially for books that sold fewer copies before the announcement, the number of reviews on Amazon, and the probability of them being negative. The effect is partly driven by an increase in word of mouth. Those findings are consistent with a model where the prize provides information on the existence of a book and acts as a quality signal and a coordination device but prompts consumers to read books that are far from their tastes.

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  • Nicolas Lagios & Pierre-Guillaume Méon, 2024. "Experts, Information, Reviews, and Coordination: Evidence on How Prizes Affect Sales," ULB Institutional Repository 2013/372011, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
    • Handle: RePEc:ulb:ulbeco:2013/372011
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    1. Michela Ponzo & Vincenzo Scoppa & Idola Francesca Spanò, 2025. "Have You Read That Book? No, But I’Ve Seen The Film: An Event Study On The Impact Of Film Releases," Working Papers 202501, Università della Calabria, Dipartimento di Economia, Statistica e Finanza "Giovanni Anania" - DESF.

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