Non-comparative versus Comparative Advertising of Quality

Emons, Winand; Fluet, Claude (2012). Non-comparative versus Comparative Advertising of Quality. International Journal of Industrial Organization, 30(4), pp. 352-360. Elsevier 10.1016/j.ijindorg.2012.01.004

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Two firms produce a good with a horizontal and a vertical character-
istic called quality. The difference in the unobservable quality levels
determines how the firms share the market. We consider two scenar-
ios: In the first one, firms disclose quality; in the second one, they
send costly signals thereof. Under non-comparative advertising a firm
advertises its own quality, under comparative advertising a firm adver-
tises the quality differential. In either scenario, under comparative ad-
vertising the firms never advertise together which they may do under
non-comparative advertising. Moreover, under comparative advertis-
ing firms do not advertise when the informational value to consumers
is small.

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