Anita Rao

Beyer Family Associate Professor

Research interests

Quantitative Marketing, Empirical Industrial Organization

Public Policy, False Advertising


Contact

Email: anita.rao@georgetown.edu

Office: 507, Georgetown University McDonough School of Business


CV


Working Papers

The Impact of Voluntary Labeling, with Raluca Ursu,

under 2nd round review, Marketing Science


The Impact of “From” prices on the Purchase Funnel: Insights from Field Experiments at an Online Travel Marketplace, with Shrabastee Banerjee and Giorgos Zervas

Published Papers

Debunking Misinformation about Consumer Products: Effects on Beliefs and Purchase Behavior, with Jessica Fong and Tong Guo,

Journal of Marketing Research, 2023

Listen to JMR's "How I Wrote This" podcast here, Read JMR's Scholarly Insights article here


Industry-funded Research and Bias in Food Science, 

Quantitative Marketing and Economics, 20, 2022


Deceptive Claims using Fake News Advertising: The Impact on Consumers

Journal of Marketing Research, November 2021

Read JMR's Scholarly Insights article here


Do Made in USA Claims Matter?, with Xinyao Kong, 

Marketing Science, 40(4), 2021


Value of Aggregators, with Selin Akca, 

Marketing Science, 39(5), 2020


Strategic Research and Development Investment Decisions in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Marketing Science, 39(3), 2020


Demand for “Healthy” Products: False Claims and FTC Regulation, with Emily Wang, 

Journal of Marketing Research, 54(6), 2017


Quality vs. Variety: Trading Larger Screens for More Shows in the Era of Digital Cinema, with Wes Hartmann, 

Quantitative Marketing and Economics, 13(2), 2015


Online Content Pricing: Purchase and Rental Markets

Marketing Science, 34(3), 2015


How do firms make money selling digital goods online?, with Lambrecht, A., A. Goldfarb, A. Bonatti, A. Ghose, D.G. Goldstein, R. Lewis, N. Sahni and S. Yao, 

Marketing Letters, 25(3), 2014