Capital Budgeting for Advertising Expenditures: A Contingent Claims Approach

George F Tannous

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 1997, vol. 8, issue 2, 109-28

Abstract: Advertising expenditures constitute a big part of the budgets of firms. Through their impact on demand and costs, advertising activities affect the firm's pricing and output decisions as well as the firm's market value. Yet, there is no analytical framework by which these effects can be measured. This paper develops a cash flow model for a product where the advertising budget is divided between a strategic component designed to increase expected demand and a contingent component allocated to be used only if sales fall short of capacity. Contingent claims techniques are employed to evaluate the present value of the cash flows and to provide a framework for determining the size of the advertising budget, and the pricing and production strategies that maximize the firm's value. The impact of the price sensitivity, volatility, and growth rate of demand on the size of the advertising budget is also analyzed. Copyright 1997 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

Date: 1997
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