James C. Reeder, III

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James C. Reeder, III

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Published works

Disentangling the Effects of Ad Tone on Voter Turnout and Candidate Choice in Presidential Elections

Joint Work with Brett Gordon, Mitchell J. Lovett, and Bowen Luo

Management Science, 2022


Separately identifying the effects of positive versus negative advertising in Presidential campaigns.

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Estimating Marketing Component Effects: Double Machine Learning from Targeted Digital Promotions

Joint Work with Paul B. Ellickson and Wreetabrata Kar

Marketing Science, 2022


Winner - Guy O. and Rosa Lee Mabry Best Paper Award


Studying the component level effects of heterogeneous treatments (emails) through the use of a novel double-machine learning framework that accounts for multiple different treatments.

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Papers under review or revision

Dynamics of Pro-Social Adoption: Promotions, Polarity, and Vaccinations

Joint Work with Daniel Kebede

R&R at Journal of Marketing


How well did the COVID incentive plans in encouraging vaccinations? Was this effect moderated by the incentive time or local level characteristics (political polarization, risk factors, or income)?

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The Dynamics of Retail Oligopoly

Joint Work with Arie Beresteanu, Paul B. Ellickson, and Sanjog Misra

Revise and Resubmit at Management Science


Did Wal-Mart's entry into the grocery channel benefit customers? How did it change the competitive landscape in that market? 

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Using Contextual Embeddings to Predict the Effect of Novel Heterogenous Treatments

Joint Work with Paul B. Ellickson, Wreetabrata Kar, and Guang Zeng

Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Marketing Research


Do contextual embeddings provide a path to development of optimal marketing creatives? Can leveraging double-machine learning provide better guidance than Generative AI's suggestions?


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Controlling for Group-Level Heterogeneity in Causal Forest

Joint Work with Candace Jens and T. Beau Page

Preparing Submission to Journal of Finance


Causal Forest is a popular choice in the estimation of average and heterogeneous treatment effects. Given its structure, how can a researcher also appropriate control for unobserved variables? 

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Heterogeneous Effects of Digital Selling in B2B Markets

Joint Work with Mohammad S. Rahman

Currently Updating Draft for New Submission to Management Science


COVID-19 accelerated the adoption of digital communication technologies in the realm of personal selling. Are there conversation, product, rep, or customer characteristics that bridge the gap in effectiveness between this new technology and in-person interactions?


Forecasting with Second-Hand Information: Unreliable Narrators and Large Language Models

Joint Work with Nawar N. Chaker and Johannes Habel

Currently Updating Draft for New Submission to Journal of Marketing Research


Firms collect vast amount of information from their employees on customers. Can this information be leveraged to improve prediction of customer outcomes? Are there employee characteristics that may mitigate predictive accuracy?

Works in progress

Measuring the Effects of Targeted B2B Promotions: A Dynamic Double Machine Learning Approach

Joint Work with Paul Ellickson and Wreetabrata Kar

Finalizing Estimation and Preparing Manuscript


The use of promotions is common in B2B marketing. We compare three common types to see their overall and dynamic performance across customer characteristics and product types to see which one benefits the seller firm the most.

Evaluation of Customer Loyalty Programs in B2B Settings

Joint Work with Guang Zeng

Estimation in Progress


Sales managers often proactively move customers between different sales reps based upon the increase or decrease in the customer's performance. What is the effect of these actions?

Does Exhaustion Impact Sales Performance?

Joint Work with Murali K. Mantrala

Estimation in Progress


Sales rep burnout is a concern of any organization. Yet, it is unknown how burnout manifests in poor sales performance. We use a novel identification scheme to see how reps perform after a minor sleep disruption.


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