TITLE

Advertisement Intensity and Market Concentration: A Formal Theoretical Analysis

AUTHOR(S)
Jin-Li Hu; Wei-Kai Chu, Aaron W.
PUB. DATE
December 2003
SOURCE
International Journal of Management;Dec2003, Vol. 20 Issue 4, p556
SOURCE TYPE
Academic Journal
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Analyzes persuasive advertisement on an n-firm oligopolistic competition model to explain the relation between advertisement intensity and market concentration ratio. Relation of the CR4 ratio and Nash equilibrium advertisement intensity; Comparison of the significance of the relation to the consumer good industries and the producer goods industries.
ACCESSION #
11597982

Tags: ADVERTISING;  COMPETITION;  INDUSTRIAL concentration

 

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