Pricing strategies may include the advertising of meeting-the-competition clauses (MCCs). We show in a specific spatial …

advertising in that medium. We apply a simple model of a product market with network externalities where firms buy advertising …. The paper is the first combining a study of media markets with a behavioral foundation of how advertising affects the …

price collusion in duopoly markets. Two environments are tested, in which the size of the spillover between advertising … expenditures is varied. The results show that the competitiveness of advertising and prices are significantly higher when the … advertising spillover is higher than the price spillover than when advertising spillover is lower than the price spillover. In the …

of individuals to information. Goods advertising is competing with political information for people's attention. This …

-loop system. We derive a Nash equilibrium and examine the influence of advertising. We show for the monopoly case that a reduction …

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 …

of individuals to information. Goods advertising is competing with political information for people's attention. This …

, consumers do not. Under non-comparative advertising a firm may signal its own quality. Under comparative advertising firms may … scenarios equilibria are revealing. Under comparative advertising the firms never advertise together which they may do under non …-comparative advertising. …

By combining a theory of herding behavior with the phenomenon of availability heuristic, this paper shows that non …