Advertising and endogenous exit in a differentiated duopoly

Mantovani, Andrea ; Mion, Giordano (2002) Advertising and endogenous exit in a differentiated duopoly. DOI 10.6092/unibo/amsacta/637.
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Abstract

In this paper we consider a duopoly two-stage duopoly where firms first decide whether to invest in advertising and then compete in prices. Advertising has two effects: a market enlargement for both firms and a predatory gain for the investing firm only. Both symmetric and asymmetric equilibria may arise. The two most interesting cases are a coor-dination game where both firms investing and non-investing are equilibria, and a chicken game where only one firm invests while the other is possibly driven (endogenously) out of the market. Our results suggest that product differentiation has an ambiguous impact on investment in advertising and that strong product substitutability may induce a coordination problem.

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Mantovani, Andrea
Mion, Giordano
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Advertising product differentiation endogenous exit asymmetric equilibria coordination games
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17 Jun 2004
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