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Advertising and Competition in Routine Legal Service Markets: An Empirical Investigation

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  • Schroeter, John R
  • Smith, Scott L
  • Cox, Steven R

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This study's findings, together with the results of earlier studies of the relationship between advertis ing and market prices, provide considerable empirical support for the pro-competitive view of seller advertising. Data on attorney fees an d advertising practices in seventeen metropolitan areas across the U. S. were used to estimate the effect of market advertising intensity o n firm demand elasticities, holding other possible influencing factor s constant. The results obtained for all three routine legal services examined are consistent with the hypothesis that advertising increas es competition among sellers in a market. Copyright 1987 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

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  • Schroeter, John R & Smith, Scott L & Cox, Steven R, 1987. "Advertising and Competition in Routine Legal Service Markets: An Empirical Investigation," Journal of Industrial Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 36(1), pages 49-60, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jindec:v:36:y:1987:i:1:p:49-60
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    1. Yannick Gabuthy & Eve-Angéline Lambert, 2018. "Legal Advertising and Frivolous Lawsuits," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, vol. 174(3), pages 570-593, September.
    2. Tülin Erdem & Michael Keane & Baohong Sun, 2008. "The impact of advertising on consumer price sensitivity in experience goods markets," Quantitative Marketing and Economics (QME), Springer, vol. 6(2), pages 139-176, June.
    3. Camille Chaserant & Sophie Harnay, 2015. "Self-regulation of the legal profession and quality in the market for legal services: an economic analysis of lawyers’ reputation," European Journal of Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 39(2), pages 431-449, April.
    4. Frank H. Stephen, 2013. "Lawyers, Markets and Regulation," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 14803.
    5. Camille Chaserant & Sophie Harnay, 2010. "Déréglementer la profession d’avocat ? Les apories de l’analyse économique," Working Papers hal-04140922, HAL.
    6. Stone, Michael P. & Miceli, Thomas J., 2012. "Optimal attorney advertising," International Review of Law and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 32(3), pages 329-338.
    7. Renato D.B. Gomes & João Manoel Pinho de Mello, 2006. "Non-price advertising and price competition: a theory, and evidence from the Brazilian beer market," Textos para discussão 525, Department of Economics PUC-Rio (Brazil).

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