Most marketing practitioners and scholars agree that marketing assets such as brand equity significantly contribute to … a firm's financial performance. In this paper, we model brand equity as an unobservable stock that results from up to … thirty years of past brand-related investment flows. Using firm-specific trademarks as investment proxies, our results show a …

brands, and thus the degree of foreign brand penetration. It is shown that, as trade costs decrease, more entrepreneurs …

A key precept of brand extension theory is that brand extension, as opposed to new brand, reduces the risk of new … the dynamics of sales. In particular, in the movie industry—where brand extension takes the form of sequels—sequels' sales … confirming that new brand extensions are indeed less risky to consumers than new brands, our results also suggest that signaling …

unrecognized brands? A reasonable consumer should value reputation; however, it is also sensible to put a heavyweight on brand … recognition. To investigate this question, the authors study consumers' inferences about brand quality for products in three … frequency of encountering a brand dominates what people profess to know about it. The authors explore the ecological rationality …