This paper empirically investigates the advertising competition in the French broadcast television industry within a …, and quantities of advertising of twenty-one TV channels from March 2008 to December 2013. We specify a structural model of … French TV advertising market is of the Cournot type. Further, we provide empirical evidence that the price-cost margin is not …

We study the relation between ad networks, consumer privacy and the online advertising market. We consider two … ads. However, its tracking capability depends on consumer privacy-related choices (e.g., accepting third-party cookies …). We show that tracking may increase or decrease the provision of ads, depending on its effect on expected advertising …

if advertising markets are sufficiently thick. In turn, we study how disclosure affects the incentives of publishers to … competitiveness of advertising markets and the ability of platforms to profile consumers. We show that, even when most consumers multi …-home, the publishers may be worse off by outsourcing to the intermediary, in particular if they operate in thin advertising …

We derive equilibrium incentives to use comparative advertising that pushes up own brand perception and pulls down the … matrices identify diversion ratios, from which we derive comparative advertising damage measures. We find that comparative … advertising causes more damage to the targeted rival than benefit to the advertiser. We simulate banning comparative advertising …

policy requiring list prices to be public). Otherwise, more protective privacy regulations have ambiguous effects on consumer …