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 …

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 …

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 …

Economists have emphasized the role of dissipative advertising and price as signals of quality. Most works, however …;D efforts and therefore are both uncertain. I characterize the optimal separating marketing mix (price and advertising) when …), advertising appears to be necessary together with price to signal quality. Equilibrium profits depend on cost but not on quality …

We consider a model of a TV oligopoly where TV channels transmit advertising and viewers dislike such commercials. We … substitutes, there will be underprovision of advertising relative to social optimum. We also find that the more viewers dislike … ads, the more likely it is that welfare is increasing in the number of advertising financed TV channels. A publicly owned …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …