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It is frequently observed that the implementation of green policies is delayed compared to the initial announcement. Considering a setting with a representative monopolist extracting a non-renewable resource, we demonstrate that announcing a green policy, but then delaying its implementation, is...
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This paper derives and estimates rules for fiscal policy that prescribe the optimal response to changes in unemployment and debt. We combine the reduced-form model of the economy from a linear VAR with a non-linear welfare function and obtain analytic solutions for optimal policy. The variables...
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We study optimal experimentation by a monopolistic platform in a two-sided market. The platform provider is uncertain about the strength of the externality each side is exerting on the other. Setting participation fees on both sides, it gradually learns about these externalities by observing...
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advertisers and customers. The relation between advertising receipts and sales receipts, which are both complementary and … antagonist, is different if media operators impose a price or a quantity to advertisers. When consumers dislike advertising …, media operators are better off setting an advertising price than an advertising quantity. We establish a relationship …
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From marketing and advertising to political campaigning and court proceedings, contending parties expend resources to …
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We consider a model of a TV oligopoly where TV channels transmit advertising and viewers dislike such commercials. We … substitutes, there will be underprovision of advertising relative to social optimum. We also find that the more viewers dislike … ads, the more likely it is that welfare is increasing in the number of advertising financed TV channels. A publicly owned …
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We study a two-sided market where a platform attracts firms selling differentiated products and buyers interested in those products. In the unique subgame perfect equilibrium of the game, the platform fully internalizes the network externalities present in the market and firms and consumers all...
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becomes lessdistinctive; and or it introduces advertising.These are timely issues, given the extent to which public … broadcasters are increasingly criticised forseeking popularity, losing distinctiveness, and in many cases, introducing advertising … parallels to other sectors where services are also offered free at the point of access, butfinanced by advertising. The most …
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setup differentiated platforms compete in advertising and offer consumers a service free of charge (such as a TV program …) that is financed through advertising. We show that advertising can exhibit the properties of a strategic substitute or …
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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 …
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