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‘You Will:’ A Macroeconomic Analysis of Digital Advertising

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  • Jeremy Greenwood
  • Yueyuan Ma
  • Mehmet Yorukoglu

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An information-based model is developed where traditional and digital advertising finance the provision of free media goods and affect price competition. Digital advertising is directed toward consumers while traditional advertising is undirected. The equilibrium is suboptimal. Media goods are under provided with both types of advertising. Additionally, traditional advertising is excessive because it is undirected. The tax-cum-subsidy policy that overcomes these inefficiencies is characterized. The model is calibrated to the U.S. economy. Digital advertising increases welfare significantly and is disproportionately financed by better-off consumers. The welfare gain from the optimal policy is much smaller than the gain from digital advertising.

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  • Jeremy Greenwood & Yueyuan Ma & Mehmet Yorukoglu, 2021. "‘You Will:’ A Macroeconomic Analysis of Digital Advertising," NBER Working Papers 28537, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    • Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:28537
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    1. Gueyon Kim, 2022. "Trade-Induced Adoption of New Work," Working Papers 2022-007, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group.
    2. Salome Baslandze & Jeremy Greenwood & Ricardo Marto & Sara Moreira, 2023. "The Expansion of Varieties in the New Age of Advertising," Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics, vol. 50, pages 171-210, October.

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    • E1 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models
    • L1 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance
    • O3 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights

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