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 … increase in advertising spending prior to insider sales, and a significant decrease in the subsequent year. Additional analyses …

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

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. …

of the older media and signs of a greater receptivity to such an approach in some studies of Internet developments and …

, and what the implications of those differences are for the Internet. Drawing on mass media, advocacy, and regulatory … for the Internet to continue to thrive as a global medium. …

) Internet skills and their potential predictors were assessed among a sample of Dutch primary school children. The findings … suggest that primary school children possess sufficient levels of fundamental but not advanced Internet skills and, hence …, might not be able to make best use of important opportunities the Internet has to offer. Children employed very ineffective …

Recent anxieties over the digital divide have centered on the observation that uptake of the Internet is shaped by a … number of identifiable, place-based factors. Yet is the Internet any more a product of material geography than previous …