Random Advertising and Monopolistic Price Dispersion

Helmut Bester

Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 1994, vol. 3, issue 3, 545-559

Abstract: We investigate the role of price advertising in a market where consumers are imperfectly informed about prices. We consider a monopolist whose demand depends on price and advertising expenditure. This demand function is derived from optimizing behavior of consumers. Uninformed consumers may pay a cost to visit the seller and obtain price information. Advertising enables the monopolist to increase the number of informed consumers. In equilibrium the uninformed consumers form rational price expectations, and the seller necessarily adopts a random pricing and advertising strategy.

Date: 1994
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