Informative Advertising in a Mixed Oligopoly

Shaohua Han (), John Heywood and Guangliang Ye
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Shaohua Han: Renmin University of China

Review of Industrial Organization, 2017, vol. 51, issue 1, No 5, 103-125

Abstract: Abstract We study a mixed duopoly in which firms compete in advertising and quantity. The sum of informative advertising undertaken often exceeds that in a private duopoly, and whenever this happens the presence of the public (i.e., government) firm decreases social welfare. Surprisingly, the public firm may increase its advertising as the cost of advertising increases. Moreover, the basic insight that the public firm can increase advertising and reduce welfare remains when there are advertising spillovers, in a case with a foreign rival, and in an illustration of Bertrand competition.

Keywords: Informative advertising; Mixed oligopoly; Social welfare (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L13 L32 M37 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/s11151-016-9541-0

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