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Optimal Advertising Rules when Advertising acts as a Capital good

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2016

D.A. Peel
D.A. Peel*
Affiliation:
University of Liverpool
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Recent papers by Steinherr [6], Vanek [7] and Ireland and Law [3] have been concerned with the question as to whether profitmaximising firms (C-firms) advertise more than labour-managed firms (LM firms). Ireland and Law follow the approach suggested by Dorfman and Steiner [2] and examine the price and advertising elasticities of the demand function. Within this framework Ireland and Law show that α/H = n/ε is a necessary optimising condition for both the C-firm and the LM-firm.

where α is sales promotion

H is total revenue

ε is the price elasticity of demand (times — 1)

n is the elasticity of demand with respect to sales promotion.

Consequently, in the particular case where the demand curve facing the firm can be locally approximated by a constant elasticities function, both firms will have the same α/H ratio. In the more general case the outcome is ambiguous.

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Recherches Économiques de Louvain/ Louvain Economic Review , Volume 44 , Issue 2 , June 1978 , pp. 217 - 219
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Copyright © Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de recherches économiques et sociales 1978 

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