To increase the sales of their products through advertising, firms must integrate their brand-advertising strategy for … capturing market share from competitors and their generic-advertising strategy for increasing primary demand for the category …. This paper examines whether, when, and how much brand advertising versus generic advertising should be done. Using …

This paper analyzes dynamic advertising and pricing policies in a durable-good duopoly. The proposed infinite …-horizon model, while general enough to capture dynamic price and advertising interactions in a competitive setting, also permits … cumulative sales, while the optimal advertising is decreasing with cumulative sales. Comparative statics for the results are …