Do Street Fairs Boost Local Businesses? A Quasi-Experimental Analysis Using Social Network Data

• Published in: Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases Vol. 9853; pp. 161 - 176
• Main Authors: Zhang, Ke, Pelechrinis, Konstantinos
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Springer International Publishing AG 2016; Springer International Publishing
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Difference-in-Differences; Local businesses; Quasi-experimental design; Social media; Urban informatics

Local businesses and retail stores are a crucial part of local economy. Local governments design policies for facilitating the growth of these businesses that can consequently have positive externalities on the local community. However, many times these policies have completely opposite from the exp...