), to be levied on the revenue of large digital platforms from advertising, online intermediation, and/or the transmission …

attention, thereby triggering wasteful advertising, and it may divert purchases to imported goods at an inefficient scale …. Wasteful advertising provides scope for policy intervention in the form of an advertising tax. However, the tax instrument … cannot eliminate inefficient diversion of consumer purchases to imports. Therefore, even under an optimal advertising tax …

This paper empirically investigates the advertising competition in the French broadcast television industry within a …, and quantities of advertising of twenty-one TV channels from March 2008 to December 2013. We specify a structural model of … French TV advertising market is of the Cournot type. Further, we provide empirical evidence that the price-cost margin is not …

This paper analyzes persuasive advertising and pricing in oligopoly if firms sell differentiated products and consumers … that the demand-enhancing effect of persuasive advertising varies across consumers and increases in the average degree of … conformity. In equilibrium, both quality and cost leaders choose higher advertising intensities and charge higher prices than …

unprecedented precision. We assess the effects of such political micro-targeting by exploiting daily advertising prices on Facebook …

We study the relation between ad networks, consumer privacy and the online advertising market. We consider two …). We show that tracking may increase or decrease the provision of ads, depending on its effect on expected advertising …

if advertising markets are sufficiently thick. In turn, we study how disclosure affects the incentives of publishers to … competitiveness of advertising markets and the ability of platforms to profile consumers. We show that, even when most consumers multi …-home, the publishers may be worse off by outsourcing to the intermediary, in particular if they operate in thin advertising …

We derive equilibrium incentives to use comparative advertising that pushes up own brand perception and pulls down the … matrices identify diversion ratios, from which we derive comparative advertising damage measures. We find that comparative … advertising causes more damage to the targeted rival than benefit to the advertiser. We simulate banning comparative advertising …

We use high frequency data on TV and radio advertising together with data on online sales for lottery tickets to … measure the short run effects of advertising. We find them to be strong and to last for up to about 4 hours. They are the … of this model and simulate the effects of a number of counterfactual dynamic advertising strategies. We find that …