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Search advertising

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Search engines enable advertisers to target consumers based on the query they have entered. In a framework with horizontal product differentiation, imperfect product information and in which consumers incur search costs, I study a game in which advertisers have to choose a price and a set of relevant keywords. The targeting mechanism brings about three kinds of efficiency gains, namely lower search costs, better matching, and more intense product market price-competition. A monopolistic se...

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University of Oxford Publisher's website
Series:
Department of Economics Discussion Paper Series
Publication date:
2013-03-20
Paper number:
649
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1143771
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pubs:1143771
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2020-12-15

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