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We study the use of and response to cheap talk by firms and their consumers, focusing on unverifiable promises of charitable donations on eBay. For transactions during March 2005 - May 2006, cheap talk listings have lower sales probabilities but sell at higher prices when they are successful....
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This paper studies the market provision of a specific type of public good: radio and television broadcasts. Its main focus is to explore the ability of the market to provide broadcasting efficiently in a world in which broadcasters earn revenues by selling time to advertisers and advertisements...
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literature has been prominent in legislative debates about taxation as a tool to discourage smoking, and has contributed theory … other tobacco control policies, such as advertising restrictions, prominent in tobacco control debates. Research addressing …
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We provide a selective survey of empirical evidence on the effects as well as the drivers of persuasive communication. We consider persuasion directed at consumers, voters, donors, and investors. We organize our review around four questions. First, to what extent does persuasion affect the...
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advertising agency industry? This question is addressed by treating an advertising agency as a multiproduct firm. The firm … advertising messages which it creates on behalf of its clients. Evidence is presented indicating that the structure of demand and … costs in the advertising agency industry conforms to the conditions that MacDonald and Slivinski (1987) showed were required …
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perform in developed countries. We present a dynamic theory of commercial broadcasting where the media trade utility …
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-price actions (e.g. marketing and advertising), and learn gradually about their idiosyncratic demand. The model matches quantity …
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We formally model direct to consumer advertising (DTCA) of prescription drugs and examine factors that determine a … perspective there can be too much or too little private investment in advertising. Welfare is more likely to increase when the …
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In this paper, we explore the hypothesis that an important force behind the collapse in advertising revenue experienced … introduce a model of the market for advertising on news media outlets whereby news outlets are modeled as competing two … equilibrium outcomes in the advertising market. One consequence is that multi-homing on the part of advertisers is heterogeneous …
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According to the standard model, advertising is remarkably sensitive to profit margins. Firms advertise to stimulate …-and-matching map a decline in wages to higher unemployment. But a rise in profit margins should expand advertising by a lot. Really a … lot. Advertising should be highly countercyclical. Instead, it is somewhat procyclical. The ratio of advertising spending …
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