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Tong Guo

Associate Professor of Business Administration
Fuqua School of Business
Box, Durham, NC 27708
100 Fuqua Drive, A334, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications


When Food Gets Political: How News Drives Green Food Offerings?

Journal Article NET Institute Working Paper · September 30, 2023 Cite

Debunking Misinformation about Consumer Products: Effects on Beliefs and Purchase Behavior

Journal Article Journal of Marketing Research · 2022 The prevalence of misinformation has spurred various interested parties--regulators, the media, and competing firms--to debunk false claims in the marketplace. This paper studies whether such debunking messages provided by these parties can impact consumer ... Link to item Cite

The Effect of Information Disclosure on Industry Payments to Physicians

Journal Article Journal of Marketing Research · February 2021 In 2019, U.S. pharmaceutical companies paid $3.6 billion to physicians in the form of gifts to promote their drugs. To curb inappropriate financial relationships between health care providers and firms, several state laws require firms to publicly ... Full text Cite

Soul and machine (learning)

Journal Article Marketing Letters · December 1, 2020 Machine learning is bringing us self-driving cars, medical diagnoses, and language translation, but how can machine learning help marketers improve marketing decisions? Machine learning models predict extremely well, are scalable to “big data,” and are a n ... Full text Open Access Cite

“Let the Sunshine In”: The Impact of Industry Payment Disclosure on Physician Prescription Behavior

Journal Article Marketing Science · January 1, 2020 U.S. pharmaceutical companies frequently pay doctors to promote their drugs. This has raised concerns about conflict of interest, which policy makers have attempted to address by introducing payment disclosure laws. However, it is unclear if such disclosur ... Full text Open Access Cite

Are People Overoptimistic about the Effects of Heavy Drinking?

Journal Article Journal of risk and uncertainty · August 2013 We test whether heavy or binge drinkers are overly optimistic about probabilities of adverse consequences from these activities or are relatively accurate about these probabilities. Using data from a survey in eight cities, we evaluate the relationship bet ... Full text Cite