becomes lessdistinctive; and or it introduces advertising.These are timely issues, given the extent to which public … broadcasters are increasingly criticised forseeking popularity, losing distinctiveness, and in many cases, introducing advertising … parallels to other sectors where services are also offered free at the point of access, butfinanced by advertising. The most …

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 …

raise revenue. A media firm can either be financed by advertising revenue, by direct payment from the viewers (or the …, the larger is the fraction of their revenue coming from advertising. A media firm's scope for raising revenues from ads …

economic theory prescribes that the advertising volume can be optimally reduced by levying a tax on ads. However, making use of … recent advances in the theory of Industrial Organization and two-sided markets we show that taxing ads may be …

We study a simultaneous move game of targeted advertising and pricing in a market with various consumer segments. In … advertising, they can obtain positive profits. In equilibrium firms price very aggressively when they address the most profitable …