If producers have more information than consumers about goods' attributes, then they may use non-price (rather than price) adjustment mechanisms and, consequently, the market may reach a new equilibrium even if prices don't change. We study a situation where producers adjust the quantity per...

Die wachsende Verbreitung und Nutzung des Smartphones erhöht die Relevanz von mobilen Inhalten für Konsumenten und Unternehmen. Innerhalb der Markenkommunikation bietet das mobile Medium die Möglichkeit, den Kunden direkt, personalisiert, überall und zu jederzeit mit der jeweiligen Botschaft...

Given that consumers value quality, and such advertising content informs consumers' beliefs about quality, it is not surprising that high quality brands emphasize quality in their advertising content. What is less obvious is whether firms with lower quality brands should also follow suit and...

Under the practice of “digital co-op”, manufacturers subsidize the online advertising expenditures of retailers that they sell their products through, even though retailers typically compete with manufacturers in the advertising market and appropriate a share of the manufacturers' channel...

Advertising often aims at creating and reinforcing brand differentiation, which should translate into reduced price competition. Currently unknown are the boundary conditions for long-term advertising benefits, the route through which advertising effects materialize, and the role of competitive...

Banken und Finanzdienstleister sind aktuell aufgrund der anhaltenden Niedrigzinspolitik der Europäischen Zentralbank, eines zunehmend regulierten Marktumfelds und einer rasch fortschreitenden Digitalisierung mit zahlreichen - für sie neuen und teils unerwarteten - Herausforderungen...

Channel coordination in search advertising is an important but complicated managerial decision for both manufacturers and retailers. Due to the highly concentrated market of search advertising, a manufacturer's and its retailers' ads can compete instead of complement with each other. We consider...

Yahoo! Research partnered with a nationwide retailer to study the effects of online display advertising on both online and in-store purchases. We use a randomized field experiment on 3 million Yahoo! users who are also past customers of the retailer. We find statistically significant evidence...