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Mohsen Foroughifar

Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business

5000 Forbes Avenue

Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890

United States

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Scholarly Papers (11)

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1.

Communicating Uncertainty Can Increase AI Adoption

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 30 Sep 2025 Last Revised: 15 Jan 2026
Mohsen Foroughifar, Rozhina Ghanavi, Avi Goldfarb and Ryan Webb
Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management and University of Toronto
Downloads 411 (177,553)

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Breaking Barriers: When Should Ads Be Inclusive?

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 16 Nov 2023 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2024
Mohsen Foroughifar
Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business
Downloads 353 (211,040)

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Inclusive ads, Diverse marketing, Game theory

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The Challenges of Deploying an Algorithmic Pricing Tool: Evidence from Airbnb

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 12 Jul 2024
Mohsen Foroughifar and Nitin Mehta
Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business and University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management
Downloads 340 (225,014)

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Errors in Learning from Others' Choices

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 09 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 09 Aug 2021
Mohsen Foroughifar
Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business
Downloads 310 (243,428)
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Social interaction, Observational learning, Decision-making error

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The Precision of Word of Mouth, the Consumer’s Ability to Recognize Precision, and Its Effect on Markets

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 09 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 26 Apr 2022
Mohsen Foroughifar and David Soberman
Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business and University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management
Downloads 309 (244,299)

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Signalling, Third-Party Information, Information Precision

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The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Short-Term Rental Policies on Home-sharing Platforms: Evidence from Airbnb

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 20 Jun 2025 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2025
Mohsen Foroughifar and Unnati Narang
Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Downloads 221 (348,255)

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Home Rental, Sharing Economy, Natural Experiment, Staggered DID

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The Impact of Word of Mouth Precision and Consumer Sophistication on Firm Pricing and Profit

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 26 Oct 2023
Mohsen Foroughifar and David Soberman
Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business and University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management
Downloads 144 (511,933)

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Word of mouth precision, Signaling, Consumer sophistication, Revenue management

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Non-Bayesian Updating in a Social Learning Experiment: Comment

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 11 Jul 2024
Mohsen Foroughifar
Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business
Downloads 113 (626,371)

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Bayesian updating, Social learning, Experimental economics C91, D01, D81, D83

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Non-parametric Identification of Posterior and Reasoning Errors in Isolated and Social Environments

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 27 Nov 2023
Mohsen Foroughifar
Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business
Downloads 94 (720,278)

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Decision-making error, Identification, Non-parametric estimation, Social interaction

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Barriers to AI Inputs: Implications for Competition and Innovation

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 11 Dec 2025
Lee Tiedrich, Mohsen Foroughifar and Jimmy Royer
Duke University, Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business and Independent
Downloads 69 (891,180)

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Innocent Algorithms, Guilty Inputs: How Strategic Reporting Drives Tacit Collusion

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 05 Dec 2025
Mohsen Foroughifar, Qiaochu Wang and Param Vir Singh
Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business, New York University (NYU) - Department of Marketing and Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business
Downloads 53 (1,041,696)

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Algorithmic Pricing, Algorithmic Collusion, Strategic Reporting