example, consider advertisers who have to decide on the advertising media mix (e.g. 30% of the expenditures on TV advertising …, 10% on radio and 60% on online advertising) as well as on the total budget of the entire campaign. To model mixture … advertising campaigns. The mixture here is the particular media mix (TV and magazine advertising) used for a campaign. As the …

. Information can come through two different channels: advertising and sequential consumer search. We arrive at the following … results. First, there is no monotone relationship between prices and the degree of advertising. Second, advertising and search … are “substitutes” for a large range of parameters. Third, when the cost of either search or advertising vanishes, the …

This paper shows how a firm can use non-targeted advertising to exploit consumers' desire for social status. A … monopolist sells multiple varieties of a good to consumers who each care about what others believe about his wealth. Advertising …

We model the idea that when consumers search for products, they first visit the firm whose advertising is more salient …. The gains a firm derives from being visited early increase in search costs, so equilibrium advertising increases as search … heterogeneity in advertising costs. Firms whose advertising is more salient and therefore raise attention more easily charge lower …

We present a strategic game of pricing and targeted-advertising. Firms cansimultaneously target priceadvertisements to … occur surely. Equilibria exhibit random advertising--to induce an unequal distribution of information in the market …

the basic fact that they sell the product. In this way, advertising lowers the expected search cost. We show that this … role of advertising can lead to a situation where advertised prices are higher than non-advertised prices in equilibrium. …

promotion, in a model where a seller employs informative advertising to launch a new product. We propose a fairly general … advertising technology for the study of three promotional strategies—mass, imperfectly targeted, and customer directed advertising … (CDA). We find that both the private and the social incentives to use distinct advertising strategies are aligned, and that …