Financing of Media Firms: Does Competition Matter?

Hans Jarle Kind, Tore Nilssen () and Lars Sørgard

No 01/2005, Memorandum from Oslo University, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper analyses how competition between media firms influences the way they are financed. In a setting where monopoly media firms choose to be completely financed by consumer payments, competition may lead the media firms to be financed by advertising as well. The closer substitutes the media firms’ products are, the less they rely on consumer payment and the more they rely on advertising revenues. If media firms can invest in programming, they invest more the less differentiated the media products are perceived to be.

Keywords: Media; Advertising; Two-sided markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L22 L82 L86 M37 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2005-04-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cfn, nep-com and nep-ind
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (5)

Published in Marketing Science, 2009, pages 1112-1128.

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sv.uio.no/econ/english/research/unpubli ... 005/Memo-01-2005.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Financing of Media Firms: Does Competition Matter? (2005)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hhs:osloec:2005_001

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Memorandum from Oslo University, Department of Economics Department of Economics, University of Oslo, P.O Box 1095 Blindern, N-0317 Oslo, Norway. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Mari Strønstad Øverås ().