Spring 2025 May 9 Mike Nguyen (Visiting Scholar) The Guest speaker will be Dr. Mike Nguyen, who will discuss Leveraging Heterogeneous Graph Data for Peer Firms and Industry Identifications.
We study how users tip content creators on digital platforms, leveraging a novel dataset with complete tipping history since the feature's launch. We model tipping decisions as a function of users' beliefs about an evolving tipping norm
The study examines how well videos and written descriptions work together in crowdfunding campaigns. By analyzing over 29,000 Kickstarter projects, we find that when the video and text content are moderately aligned—not too similar, not too different—campaigns tend to raise more money.