Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
719339 IFAC Proceedings Volumes 2009 6 Pages PDF
Abstract

We examine an oligopoly model of advertising competition where each firm's market share depends on its own and its competitors’ advertising decisions. A differential game model is developed and used to derive the closed-loop Nash equilibrium under symmetric as well as asymmetric competition. We obtain explicit solutions under certain plausible conditions, and discuss the effects of an increase in the number of competing firms on advertising expenditure, market share and profitability.

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