This paper is the first to estimate the impact of exposure to deceptive advertising on consumption of the advertised … advertising is rampant and products are generally ineffective with potentially serious side effects. We control for the targeting … exposure to deceptive advertising is associated with a lower probability that women, and a higher probability that men, consume …

We develop a duopoly model with advertising supported platforms and analyze incentives of a superior firm to license … network effects arising fromthe aversion of users to advertising. We establish a relationship between licensing incentives and … the advertising intensity, benefits advertisers and harms users. Our model provides a rationale for technology …

-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. …

Pricing strategies may include the advertising of meeting-the-competition clauses (MCCs). We show in a specific spatial …

. Information can come through two different channels: advertising and sequential consumer search. We arrive at the following … results. First, there is no monotone relationship between prices and the degree of advertising. Second, advertising and search … are “substitutes” for a large range of parameters. Third, when the cost of either search or advertising vanishes, the …

This paper shows how a firm can use non-targeted advertising to exploit consumers' desire for social status. A … monopolist sells multiple varieties of a good to consumers who each care about what others believe about his wealth. Advertising …

We model the idea that when consumers search for products, they first visit the firm whose advertising is more salient …. The gains a firm derives from being visited early increase in search costs, so equilibrium advertising increases as search … heterogeneity in advertising costs. Firms whose advertising is more salient and therefore raise attention more easily charge lower …

advertising in that medium. We apply a simple model of a product market with network externalities where firms buy advertising …. The paper is the first combining a study of media markets with a behavioral foundation of how advertising affects the …

industry. We compare the equilibrium levels of advertising under private and mixed duopoly competition, and show that the … connection between programme quality and advertising incentives is drastically different in each scenario. We also consider the …