In this paper we consider a two-stage duopoly game where firms first decide whether to invest in advertising and then … compete in prices. Advertising has two effects: a market enlargement for both firms and a predatory gain for the investing … investment in advertising and that strong product substitutability may induce a coordination problem. …

Market work per person of working age differs widely across the OECD countries and there have been some significant … changes in the last forty years. How to explain this pattern? Taxes are part of the story but much remains to be explained. If … benefits and unemployment benefits, then we can capture some aspects of the overall pattern but still a lot remains unexplained …

Recent work in psychology and economics has investigated ways in which individuals experience their lives. This … links between individuals’ wellbeing measured momentarily at random points in time and their experiences of paid work. We … effects of working on two aspects of affect: happiness and relaxation. We find paid work is ranked lower than any of the other …

A high proportion of people with severe mental health problems are unemployed but would like to work. Individual … pattern also held in disaggregated analyses for five of the six European sites. The inclusion of imputed values for missing …

This article considers changes in healthcare professional work afforded by technology. It uses the sociology of … professional work. The study draws from research into the introduction of a national electronic patient record in an English …, curtailment of professional autonomy, enlargement of nurses’ roles and redistribution of clinical work within and across …

suggest that the inverted-V-shaped pattern in advertising spending around insider sales is most consistent with managers …This paper provides evidence that managers adjust firm advertising, in part, to attract investor attention and … influence short-term stock returns. First, I show that increased advertising spending is associated with a contemporaneous rise …

increased. The importance of these commercial pressures is analysed. Do children understand advertising? How is child poverty …