Advertising, Competition and Entry in Media Industries

Claude Crampes, Carole Haritchabalet and Bruno Jullien

No 1591, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: This paper presents a model of media competition with free entry when media operators are financed both from 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 between the equilibrium levels (advertising and entry) and the advertising technology. In particular, media operators’ profit is not affected by the introduction of advertising when they impose advertising quantities and when advertising exhibits constant returns to scale in the audience size. Under constant or increasing returns to scale in the audience size, we find an excessive level of entry and an insufficient level of advertising.

Keywords: media; advertising; free entry; two-sided markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L13 L82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-com, nep-cul, nep-mic, nep-mkt and nep-tid
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Journal Article: ADVERTISING, COMPETITION AND ENTRY IN MEDIA INDUSTRIES* (2009)
Working Paper: Advertising, competition and entry in media industries (2009)
Working Paper: Advertising, Competition and Entry in Media Industries (2006)
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