Abstract: Purpose: We model group advertising decisions, which are the collective decisions of every single advertiser within the set of advertisers who are competing in the same auction or vertical industry, and examine resulting market outcomes, via a proposed simulation framework named EXP-SEA (Experimental Platform for Search Engine Advertising) supporting experimental studies of collective behaviors in the context of search engine advertising. Design: We implement the EXP-SEA to validate the proposed simulation framework, also conduct three experime...
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Topics: 
Advertising
Microeconomics
Marketing