Avi  Goldfarb

Professor Avi Goldfarb
Professor of Marketing
Rotman School of Management


Working Papers

Agrawal, Ajay, Christian Catalini, and Avi Goldfarb. Slack Time and Innovation
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Uses crowdfunding data to show that one role of slack time is to enable mundane tasks required for successful innovation.

Gans, Joshua, Avi Goldfarb, and Mara Lederman. Exit, Tweets, and Loyalty Online Appendix
Examines relationship between voice and market structure using data from twitter.

Goldfarb, Avi and Catherine Tucker. Conducting Research with Quasi-Experiments: A Guide for Marketers
Guide to quasi-experimental methods.

Campbell, James, Avi Goldfarb, and Kitty Wang. Coordinating on Design Standards: The Role of Editors
Models why an industry might cede control to a powerful editor.

Goldfarb, Avi, and Mo Xiao. Transitory Shocks, Limited Attention, and a Firm’s Decision to Exit
Examines restaurant owners attention to transitory shocks within a structural model of the decision to go out of business.

Forman, Chris, Avi Goldfarb, and Shane Greenstein. Digital Dispersion: An Industrial and Geographic Census of Commercial Internet Use
Explores adoption of Internet applications in commercial establishments.

Goldfarb, Avi. Research on Digitization
Slides from the 2013 ISMS Doctoral Consortium.