Substitution effect of advertising on resale price maintenance: using a real options approach

Guan-Ru Chen and Miao-Ling Chen

Applied Economics Letters, 2010, vol. 17, issue 10, 969-972

Abstract: This article investigates the incentives to impose Resale Price Maintenance (RPM) from the real options perspective, how manufacturers use national advertising as a substitute for RPM when RPM is made illegal. Purchase delay caused by frequent markdowns among retailers encourages the manufacturers to impose RPM. But advertising mitigates the impacts of frequent markdowns by decreasing the demand price elasticity. When RPM is prohibited, we find that manufacturers increase national advertising expenditures to reduce the negative externality of frequent markdowns.

Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1080/13504850802599474

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