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 …

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. I present an empirical discrete-choice model of limited information on the part of consumers, where advertising … influences the set of products from which consumers choose to purchase. Multi-product firms choose prices and advertising in each … medium to maximize their profits. I apply the model to the US PC market, in which advertising expenditures are over $2 …

price collusion in duopoly markets. Two environments are tested, in which the size of the spillover between advertising … expenditures is varied. The results show that the competitiveness of advertising and prices are significantly higher when the … advertising spillover is higher than the price spillover than when advertising spillover is lower than the price spillover. In the …

-loop system. We derive a Nash equilibrium and examine the influence of advertising. We show for the monopoly case that a reduction …

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 … conformity. In equilibrium, both quality and cost leaders choose higher advertising intensities and charge higher prices than …

by advertising as well. The closer substitutes the media firms’ products are, the less they rely on consumer payment and … the more they rely on advertising revenues. If media firms can invest in programming, they invest more the less …