When firms use advertising to differentiate their products and increase consumer appreciation of their products, the strategy, i.e., price or quantity, depends on the degree of product differentiation and the magnitude of advertising costs. If advertising costs in Bertrand competition are very...

This study analyzes the type of advertisements firms pursue when they engage in Cournot competition, especially when goods are complementary in a multimedia environment. Advertisements are classified into search-linked advertisements for online advertisements and TV commercials for mass media...

We apply ideas put forward in the literature on the international coordination of macroeconomic and trade policies to study the merits of an international coordination of antidoping policies. Without international coordination of antidoping policies, sports associations and national anti-doping...

The apparent increase in market concentration and vertical integration in the Indonesiancrude palm oil (CPO) industry has led to concerns about the presence of market power.For the Indonesian CPO industry, such concerns attract more attention because of theimportance of this sector to the...