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 …

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 …