Informative Versus Persuasive Advertising in a Dynamic Hotelling Monopoly

Abstract

A dynamic Hotelling monopoly model is proposed, with the purpose of characterising the effects of informative and persuasive advertising in a regime of partial market coverage. The two models are solved to show the emergence of a unique saddle-point steady-state equilibrium in both cases. Then, equilibrium profits are compared to illustrate that the firm’s preferences on the type of advertising effort to be adopted strictly depend on initial conditions.