. Information can come through two different channels: advertising and sequential consumer search. We arrive at the following … results. First, there is no monotone relationship between prices and the degree of advertising. Second, advertising and search … are “substitutes” for a large range of parameters. Third, when the cost of either search or advertising vanishes, the …

We present a strategic game of pricing and targeted-advertising. Firms cansimultaneously target priceadvertisements to … occur surely. Equilibria exhibit random advertising--to induce an unequal distribution of information in the market …

the basic fact that they sell the product. In this way, advertising lowers the expected search cost. We show that this … role of advertising can lead to a situation where advertised prices are higher than non-advertised prices in equilibrium. …