We study commercialization of personal data through personalized advertising by a content platform. Content consumption … against losses in privacy rent. Still, privacy protection is inefficient because of distorted incentives to invest in AI. …

This paper shows how a firm can use non-targeted advertising to exploit consumers' desire for social status. A … monopolist sells multiple varieties of a good to consumers who each care about what others believe about his wealth. Advertising …

promotion, in a model where a seller employs informative advertising to launch a new product. We propose a fairly general … advertising technology for the study of three promotional strategies—mass, imperfectly targeted, and customer directed advertising … (CDA). We find that both the private and the social incentives to use distinct advertising strategies are aligned, and that …

The paper formalizes the intuition that brands are consumed for image reasons and that advertising creates a brand …'s image. The key idea is that advertising informs the public of brand names and creates the possibility of conspicuous … consumption by rendering brands a signalling device. In a price competition framework, we show that advertising increases …

Economists have emphasized the role of dissipative advertising and price as signals of quality. Most works, however …;D efforts and therefore are both uncertain. I characterize the optimal separating marketing mix (price and advertising) when …), advertising appears to be necessary together with price to signal quality. Equilibrium profits depend on cost but not on quality …

information from the advertiser and embed it in a two-sided market setting with an advertising market. Our results show that …

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 …

, accounting for multi-homing helps to recognize complementarity between products; on the advertising side, it allows to measure to … what extent advertising demand depends on the shares of exclusive and overlapping readers. …

, accounting for multi-homing helps to recognize complementarity between products; on the advertising side, it allows to measure to … what extent advertising demand depends on the shares of exclusive and overlapping readers. …