This paper explores the origins and impact of "truth-in-advertising" regulation during the Progressive era. Was … advertising regulation adopted in response to rent-seeking on the part of firms who sought to limit the availability of … advertising as a competitive device? Or was advertising regulation desired because it furnished a mechanism through which firms …

In this paper we investigate how direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising of pharmaceutical products in affected by … heavily regulated than cigarettes. Our empirical analysis uses data on advertising expenditures and data from an archive of … OTC status is associated with an increase in advertising expenditures and the number and pages of magazine advertisements …

advertising agency industry? This question is addressed by treating an advertising agency as a multiproduct firm. The firm … advertising messages which it creates on behalf of its clients. Evidence is presented indicating that the structure of demand and … costs in the advertising agency industry conforms to the conditions that MacDonald and Slivinski (1987) showed were required …

How important are economies of scale and scope in advertising agency operations? This paper reports an econometric … advertising it produces. These models are estimated and tested cross-sectionally utilizing data pertaining to the domestic … highly significant in the operations of US advertising agencies. We find that of the 12,000 establishments comprising the …

Attempts to curb undesired behavior through regulation gets complicated when agents can adapt to circumvent enforcement …

years of state commission regulation. Examples of an adaptive response pattern on the part of regulators, firms and …

quantitative estimates of the consequences of government regulation. We estimate the impact of restricting gender-based pricing in …

not only on its effectiveness as a sanitary measure but also on how the costs of the regulation are distributed …