Brand Extension as Informational Leverage

The marketing literature refers to the concept of brand capital and provides empirical evidence that firms with a large stock of well-established brands have an advantage in introducing new products. This paper develops a theory of brand extension as a mechanism for informational leverage in which a...

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Published in:The Review of economic studies 1998-10, Vol.65 (4), p.655-669
Main Author: Choi, Jay Pil
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Brands
Capital costs
Consumer economics
Consumer equilibrium
Consumer prices
Financial leverage
Marketing
Monopoly
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Production costs
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Capital costs
Consumer economics
Consumer equilibrium
Consumer prices
Financial leverage
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Monopoly
Price distortions
Production costs
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