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good or service. Even if these firms are monopoly or oligopolies in their fields with huge economic rents, if they pass … examples. This advertising cost is added into the sales price of the product, resulting in consumers being harmed by the … embedded advertising costs in the products or services purchased. We argue here, using Bork's own criterion - except to expand …
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The objective of the research was to map the most important global megatrends affecting the business and marketing environment and to analyze and understand how the changed environment will affect the practice and performance of marketing communication in the next decade. For identifying the...
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The firms in this model set non-binding list prices before competing for buyers by non-cooperatively granting discounts. Each firm has an incentive to set a high list price if, for example, the customers anchor their willingness-to-pay on the list price. However, list price competition occurs if...
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This paper investigates whether newspapers report more favorably about advertising corporate clients than about other … firms. Our identification strategy based on high-dimensional fixed effects and high frequency advertising data shows that … advertising leads to more positive press coverage. This advertising bias in reporting is found among local and national newspapers …
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In the semantic architecture of the society of the knowledge the innovation concept is the fundamental brick. It is an adobe that allows to construct very different discourses frequently opposed between them, in what the purpose of its social use concerns. In the present communication we...
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-comparative advertising a firm signals its own quality, under comparative advertising a firm signals the quality differential. In both … firms advertise. Under comparative advertising the firms never advertise together which they may do under non …-comparative advertising. …
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The creative industry daily faces genuine challenges in their work when it comes to advertising and meeting client … insights. The present paper aims to point out the difficulties and opportunities of creative work in any advertising agency, by …
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Advertising work meets significant challenges in terms of hiring young professionals that should properly match the job … present obstacles and necessity of mentorship in an advertising agency from juniors' perspectives, when meeting seniors …
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We explore how competition affects firms obfuscation strategies in laboratory experiments. Firms sell a base good and an add-on product. The price of the add-on may be shrouded and, if so, myopic consumers pay too much. Shrouding is an equilibrium but an unshrouding equilibrium coexists. In our...
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We investigate the trade-off between financial stability and competition policy by focusing on the merger of ABN AMRO and Fortis Bank NL in the Dutch retail banking market. The financial crisis delayed the completion of the merger giving rise to anti-competitive behavior in the transitory...
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