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 studies the effect of advertising on content differentiation on YouTube, the second-most visited website in … the world. I demonstrate that an exogenous increase in the feasible advertising quantity leads to a considerable decrease …; thus, viewers who perceive advertising as a nuisance – and therefore as an implicit price they have to pay – could easily …

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 …

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 …

leads to higher average prices. We test the theory using detailed data for Brazilian exporters and find that the destination …