false advertising by a firm in duopolistic competition where consumers can be distinguished according to whether or not they … form rational beliefs about the trustworthiness of advertising claims. We compare private and public law enforcement in the … form of the demand for injunctions against false advertising. From a welfare perspective, we show that it can be optimal …

engage in deceptive advertising, potentially fooling a buyer into thinking the product is better than it is. Although … deceptive advertising might seem to harm the buyer, we show that he could be better off when the low-quality seller can engage … in deceptive advertising than not. We characterize the optimal deterrence rule that a regulatory agency seeking to punish …

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 …

Does advertising revenue increase or diminish content differentiation in media markets? This paper shows that an … causal effect of advertising on the YouTubers' content choice. The analysis of around one million YouTube videos shows that … advertising leads to a twenty percentage point reduction in the YouTubers' probability to duplicate popular content, i.e., content …

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 …

The paper formalizes the intuition that brands are consumed for image reasons and that advertising creates a brand …'s image. The key idea is that advertising informs the public of brand names and creates the possibility of conspicuous … consumption by rendering brands a signalling device. In a price competition framework, we show that advertising increases …

There is widespread evidence that some firms use false advertising to overstate the value of their products. We … advertising actively influences rational buyers, and analyze the effects of policy under different welfare objectives. We … establish precise conditions where policy optimally permits a positive level of false advertising, and show how these conditions …

This paper argues, in the context of targeted advertising, that receivers' rational inattention and ability to … has an opportunity to launch an advertising campaign and chooses a targeting strategy -- which consumers to send its …