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This paper focuses on the environmental and ethical attributes of food products and their production processes. These two aspects have been recently recognized and are becoming increasingly important, in terms of signaling and of consumer perception. There are two thematic domains: environmental...
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Teak was first planted centuries ago in Java and the industry reached its peak in the 19th century. Java's teak plantations, the most extensive in the world, cover some 200 000 hectares, but they are being overexploited and NGOs are questioning their management by the state. Teak has become...
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An acceleration in the growth of communications bandwidth in use and a rapid reduction in bandwidth prices have not accompanied the U.S. economy’s strong performance in the second half of the 1990s. Overall U.S. bandwidth in use has grown robustly throughout the 1990s, but growth has not...
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change total advertising spending as a share of total economic output, nor did it change significantly total advertising …
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This paper develops a model of pricing and advertising in a matching environment with capacity constrained sellers …. Sellers' expenditure on directly informative advertising attracts consumers only probabilistically. Consumers who happen to … maximizing advertising levels are derived and their properties analyzed, including the interplay of prices and advertising with …
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Comparative advertising by one brand against another showcases its merits versus the demerits of the other. In a two … advertising configuration, firms compete as Cournot oligopolists. In the symmetric case, equilibrium advertising constitutes a … clear welfare loss. Equilibrium advertising levels and advertising expenditures decline with rising advertising costs …
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There are many examples of markets involving two groups of agents who need to interact via 'platforms', and where one group's benefit from joining a platform depends on the number of agents from the other group who join the same platform. This paper presents theoretical models for three variants...
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Comparative advertising by one brand against another showcases its merits versus the demerits of the other. In a two … advertising configuration, firms compete as Cournot oligopolists. In the symmetric case, equilibrium advertising constitutes a … clear welfare loss. Equilibrium advertising levels and advertising expenditures decline with rising advertising costs …
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This paper argues that advertising should be regarded as a transaction between a consumer and a firm that potentially … establish direct markets for advertising. The media is viewed as an intermediary that can channel advertising and allocate it … markets, over- or underprovision of advertising, and in an overprovision of media quality for high income consumers (relative …
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image of the institutions of undergraduate education, are presented, by highlighting the importance of the advertising push …
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