Search advertising marketplace is highly competitive in nature. As such, advertisers have to consider their competitors' responses when making advertising decisions, which concern both bid determination in individual keyword auction instances, and budget allocation over time at the aggregate...

Purpose: We model group advertising decisions, which are the collective decisions of every single advertiser within the set of advertisers who are competing in the same auction or vertical industry, and examine resulting market outcomes, via a proposed simulation framework named EXP-SEA...

Advertising efforts mainly aim to build broader brand image and increase sales. In the online context, widely-successful sponsored search advertising (SSA), which predominantly employs performance-based schemes (e.g., pay-per-click), has been largely treated as a direct-selling mechanism. Recent...

Although it is widely acknowledged that ad rankings matter in sponsored search advertising (SSA) in both academia and industry, its potential effect on people’s attitudes toward advertising remains as an overlooked issue. This study proposes and tests a conceptual model examining the role of...

Symmetric Nash equilibrium is a well-known refinement of Nash equilibrium in the study of bidding behavior of online advertisers on the sponsored search advertising marketplace. This solution concept, however, has major limitations. It allows for over-bidding and has uncompelling upper bounds....