| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP6986 |
| DP6986 Economic and Social Factors Driving the Third Wave of Democratization | |
| Elias Papaioannou; Gregorios Siourounis | |
| 发表日期 | 2008-10-23 |
| 出版年 | 2008 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper lays out an econometric strategy for estimating the effect of advertising on prices, by exploiting seasonal demand and imperfect targeting. We present two simple models of duopoly where firms choose prices and advertising. In times of high demand for the product, a larger fraction of consumers who obtain an advertisements are interested in the product, and so the effectiveness of advertising is greater, and firms advertise more. We use this to justify IV estimation of price on log advertising (and trend), in which monthly dummies are used as instruments. Using Israeli data we find a sufficiently large degree of advertising seasonality to justify estimation by the LIML or Fuller-k method. Among those industries, only a few exhibit a significant response of price to advertising. The interpretation of these results depends on the nature of the marginal cost curve: under constant returns to scale a negative response is consistent with informative advertising, and a positive with brand enhancing advertising. Under sufficiently increasing returns to scale, informative advertising will lead to a price increase, yet for some of the products we are able choose among these two types of advertising based on knowledge of the likely cost structure of the industry. Nevertheless, in almost all cases, significant and insignificant, the magnitude of the measured response is very small. |
| 主题 | Industrial Organization |
| 关键词 | Advertising Prices Seasonality |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp6986 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/535841 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Elias Papaioannou,Gregorios Siourounis. DP6986 Economic and Social Factors Driving the Third Wave of Democratization. 2008. |
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