Key research themes
1. How do different advertising media types vary in their impacts on firm performance, consumer behavior, and advertising strategy?
This theme explores the comparative effectiveness and economic impact of varying advertising media—including traditional TV advertising (spots and sponsorships), online display and paid search advertising, and novel digital formats like Google Display ads—on firm performance, consumer attitudes, and strategic advertising decisions. Understanding these differences is critical for optimizing media mix allocation, refining advertising creatives, and aligning spending with measurable business outcomes in the evolving multimedia landscape.
2. What are the economic and firm-level dynamic implications of advertising in competitive markets, including strategic pricing and innovation interactions?
Research under this theme examines advertising's role within firm competition, pricing strategies, and innovation-driven growth. Emphasis is placed on understanding how advertising decisions interplay with product differentiation, consumer preferences shocks, and R&D investments, affecting firm profits, market structure, and aggregate economic growth. This line of work informs managerial decision making and policy by modeling endogenous advertising choices and their substitutability or complementarity with innovation.
3. How do advertising elasticity and consumer information effects differ in specific industries, product markets, and cultural contexts including entertainment and tourism?
This theme covers empirical and theoretical investigations into advertising elasticities—measures of demand sensitivity to advertising spending—in specialized sectors such as entertainment and tourism, and under varying cultural and ethical frameworks. It includes meta-analyses to quantify elasticity magnitudes, evaluations of advertising impact on tourism demand, and ethical considerations from conventional and Islamic economic perspectives. Such insights guide efficient budget allocations and ethical advertising practices in diverse contexts.