American Economic Journal:
Microeconomics
ISSN 1945-7669 (Print) | ISSN 1945-7685 (Online)
Competitive Framing
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
vol. 6,
no. 3, August 2014
(pp. 35–58)
Abstract
I present a simple framework for modeling two-firm market competition when consumer choice is "frame-dependent", and firms use costless "marketing messages" to influence the consumer's frame. This framework embeds several recent models in the "behavioral industrial organization" literature. I identify a property that consumer choice may satisfy, which extends the concept of Weighted Regularity due to Piccione and Spiegler (2012), and provide a characterization of Nash equilibria under this property. I use this result to analyze the equilibrium interplay between competition and framing in a variety of applications.Citation
Spiegler, Ran. 2014. "Competitive Framing." American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 6 (3): 35–58. DOI: 10.1257/mic.6.3.35Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- D43 Market Structure and Pricing: Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
- D82 Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- M31 Marketing
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