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We study the effect of price caps on the provision of costly effort by pharmaceutical firms using variation in drug discounts generated by a price regulation program that allows eligible hospitals to purchase outpatient drugs at steep discounts. These discounts directly affect drug...
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The two components of the advertising industry - the creative sector that develops and produces messages, and the … communications technologies. As the media composition of advertising has changed in the last century for both local and national … advertising - from newspapers, outdoor and radio advertising to network and cable television, and most recently to internet and …
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A model is developed where traditional and digital advertising finance the provision of free media goods and affect … price competition. The economy is not efficient. Media goods are under provided. Additionally, there is too much advertising … advertising increases consumer welfare significantly and is disproportionately financed by better-off consumers. The welfare gain …
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television and social media advertising. We find that television outlets whose viewers watch more television charge a lower price … more male audiences on television. Also consistent with the theory, we show that social media advertising markets feature a … trends in television advertising revenue. We use the model to quantify the impact of mergers, the effect of competition on …
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We examine manufacturers' decisions of whether and how to offer their products for sale over the internet. Manufacturers that rely on promotion of their products by brick and mortar retailers must consider the possibility that internet retailers can free ride off of that promotional effort. This...
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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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other tobacco control policies, such as advertising restrictions, prominent in tobacco control debates. Research addressing …
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Tobacco advertising is a public health issue if these activities increase smoking. Although public health advocates … assert that tobacco advertising does increase smoking, there is significant empirical literature that finds little or no … effect of tobacco advertising on smoking. In this paper, these prior studies are examined more closely with several important …
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