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Title: | Quality Signaling, Advertising and Firm Numbers |
Authors: | Tsui, Hsiao-Chien Lin, Yi-Shiun |
Issue Date: | Nov-2013 |
Publisher: | 成蹊大学アジア太平洋研究センター |
Abstract: | This paper investigates whether low-quality firms can pretend through advertising to be high-quality firms, which is a signal of product quality, when the number of firms increases. We assume that consumers remain loyal to high-quality firms after purchasing high-quality products and will therefore not patronize low-quality firms, which pretend through advertising to be high-quality firms. Our results indicate that the possibility of low-quality firms entering the high-quality market declines when the number of high-quality firms increases. Furthermore, the result of this paper suggests that if the number of low-quality firms is larger than that of high-quality firms, it may not be profitable for low-quality firms to advertise. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10928/423 |
Appears in Collections: | No.38
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