Differential Privacy offers the online advertising industry new means to increase consumer privacy by obfuscating consumer data. While achieving the same privacy, these means decrease targeting accuracy differently, subsequently reducing advertisers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for targeted...

We present a strategic game of pricing and targeted-advertising. Firms cansimultaneously target priceadvertisements to different groups of customers, or to the entiremarket. Pure strategy equilibria do not exist and thus marketsegmentation cannot occur surely. Equilibria exhibit random...

The advertising sector in Albania has grown to millions and millions of Euros spent by advertisers yearly, but how efficiently are these huge budgets being spent remains still unknown to many experts in the field, and most important of all, to advertisers themselves as well. The thesis aimed to...

We study a simultaneous move game of targeted advertising and pricing in a market with various consumer segments. In this setting, we explore the implications of market segmentation on firm competitiveness. If firms are unable to target their ads on different consumer segments, a unique...

We present a strategic game of pricing and targeted-advertising. Firms can simultaneously target price advertisements to different groups of customers, or to the entire market. Pure strategy equilibria do not exist and thus market segmentation cannot occur surely. Equilibria exhibit random...

We study the relationship between online reviews and advertising spending in the hotel industry. Combining a dataset of TripAdvisor reviews with other datasets describing these hotels' advertising expenditures, we show, first, that online ratings have a causal demand-side effect on ad spending....

We rarely fail to realize the value of reaching out to consumers informally to establish a distinctive among rivals and draw public knowledge of the functionality of ingeniously selling ideas, products, and services. There are countless brand options available in today's world to meet consumers'...

Previous literature has suggested that newspaper publishers should optimize how they advertise their online subscriptions. However, empirical findings on the effectiveness of advertising messages in increasing people’s willingness to pay for such online subscriptions are still rare. Therefore,...