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Attitudes toward advertising and price competition in the press industry

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  • GABSZEWICZ, Jean
  • LAUSSEL, Didier
  • SONNAC, Nathalie

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We consider a situation of duopolistic competition in the press industry, involving two editors competing in both the newspapers' and advertising markets. The population of readers in this market is differentiated in terms of their attitudes toward advertising; some of them are assumed to be advertising-lovers, while the remaining ones are assumed to be advertising-averse. We analyse a two-period sequential game whose players are the editors each selling a magazine of different political content. The editors also sell some proportion of their newspaper's surface as advertising support for the products sold by the advertisers. In the first stage of the game, editors select the newsstand price of their magazine and, in the second stage, the advertising tarif they oppose to the advertisers. We identify the equilibrium of this sequential game and examine how it depends on the proportion of ad-lovers and ad-avoiders' readers and on the intensity of their attraction-repulsion feelings for advertising.

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  • GABSZEWICZ, Jean & LAUSSEL, Didier & SONNAC, Nathalie, 2002. "Attitudes toward advertising and price competition in the press industry," LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE 2002026, Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE).
  • Handle: RePEc:cor:louvco:2002026
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    1. Gabszewicz, J.J. & Garella, P.G. & Sonnac, N., 2007. "Newspapers' market shares and the theory of the circulation spiral," Information Economics and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 19(3-4), pages 405-413, October.
    2. Hans Jarle Kind & Tore Nilssen & Lars Sørgard, 2009. "Business Models for Media Firms: Does Competition Matter for How They Raise Revenue?," Marketing Science, INFORMS, vol. 28(6), pages 1112-1128, 11-12.
    3. Matthew Ellman & Fabrizio Germano, "undated". "What Do the Papers Sell?," Working Papers 149, Barcelona School of Economics.
    4. Kind, Hans Jarle & Nilssen, Tore & Sørgard, Lars, 2005. "Financing of Media Firms: Does Competition Matter?," Memorandum 01/2005, Oslo University, Department of Economics.
    5. Hans Jarle Kind & Marko Köthenbürger & Guttorm Schjelderup, 2009. "Should Utility-Reducing Media Advertising be Taxed?," CESifo Working Paper Series 2589, CESifo.

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