differentiated. While locations are chosen under quality undertainty, firms choose prices and advertising expenditures being …We analyze a two-sender quality-signaling game in a duopoly model where goods are horizontally and vertically … privately informed about their thpes. We show that pure price separation is impossible, and that dissipative advertising is …

Firms signal high quality through high prices even if the market structure is highly competitive and price competition … is severe. In a symmetric Bertrand oligopoly where products may differ only in their quality, production cost is … increasing in quality and the quality of each firm’s product is private information (not known to consumers or to other firms …

Firms signal high quality through high prices even if the market structure is highly competitive and price competition … is severe. In a symmetric Bertrand oligopoly where products may differ only in their quality, production cost is … increasing in quality and the quality of each firm’s product is private information (not known to consumers or to other firms …

We consider an oligopolistic market where firms compete in price and quality and where consumers are heterogeneous in … knowledge: some consumers know both the prices and quality of the products offered, some know only the prices and some know …-inefficiency of the price/quality offers. But, better price/quality combinations are signalled with lower prices in one type and with …

Firms signal high quality through high prices even if the market structure is highly competitive and price competition … is severe. In a symmetric Bertrand oligopoly where products may differ only in their quality, production cost is … increasing in quality and the quality of each firm’s product is private information (not known to consumers or to other firms …

Firms signal high quality through high prices even if the market structure is highly competitive and price competition … is severe. In a symmetric Bertrand oligopoly where products may differ only in their quality, production cost is … increasing in quality and the quality of each firm’s product is private information (not known to consumers or to other firms …

Firms signal high quality through high prices even if the market structure is highly competitive and price competition … is severe. In a symmetric Bertrand oligopoly where products may differ only in their quality, production cost is … increasing in quality and the quality of each firm's product is private information (not known to consumers or to other firms …

conformity. In equilibrium, both quality and cost leaders choose higher advertising intensities and charge higher prices than …This paper analyzes persuasive advertising and pricing in oligopoly if firms sell differentiated products and consumers … that the demand-enhancing effect of persuasive advertising varies across consumers and increases in the average degree of …

, both quality and cost leaders choose higher advertising intensities and charge higher prices than their competitors. In …This paper provides a formal analysis of persuasive advertising when firms compete for consumers with heterogenous …-enhancing effect of persuasive advertising varies across consumers and increases in the average degree of conformity. In equilibrium …

conformity. In equilibrium, both quality and cost leaders choose higher advertising intensities and charge higher prices than …This paper analyzes persuasive advertising and pricing in oligopoly if firms sell differentiated products and consumers … the demand-enhancing effect of persuasive advertising varies across consumers and increases in the average degree of …