We examine equilibrium responses of a Cournot oligopoly to two typical types of nonparallel demand increases. Results based on a linear demand curve show that in terms of profits, increases in demand that result in a more elastic demand curve are beneficial to every firm, with large firms...

The U.S. fluid milk market has been experiencing two trends in the recent decade: the fast growth of private label milk and organic milk. Using the latest Nielsen Consumer Panel Dataset, we estimate a censored demand system to study the demand relations among types of milk differentiated by...

Using a simple market model and Frisch's duality relation, this report develops propositions about the relationship between advertising and the market demand elasticity that may prove useful in empirical research. In particular, we find that a parallel shift in a linear demand function always...

The U.S. tobacco market has experienced a shift toward noncigarette tobacco products. We examined the degree of habit formation and the role of advertising for cigarettes, little cigars/cigarillos, large cigars, e-cigarettes, and smokeless tobacco using market-level scanner data for convenience...