Alvin J. Silk

Holding Company Cost Economies in the Global Advertising and Marketing Services Business (2004)

Silk, Alvin J., Berndt, Ernst R.

We assess size and scope-related economies in the global advertising and marketing services business. A translog cost function is employed wherein a firm's costs vary according to its scale and two...

Holding Company Cost Economies in the Global Advertising and Marketing Services Business (2004)

Silk, Alvin J., Berndt, Ernst R.

We assess size and scope-related economies in the global advertising and marketing services business. A translog cost function is employed wherein a firm's costs vary according to its scale and two...

Holding Company Cost Economies in the Global Advertising and Marketing Services Business (2004)

Silk, Alvin J., Berndt, Ernst R.

We assess size and scope-related economies in the global advertising and marketing services business. A translog cost function is employed wherein a firm's costs vary according to its scale and two...

Holding Company Cost Economies in the Global Advertising and Marketing Services Business (2004)

Silk, Alvin J., Berndt, Ernst R.

We assess size and scope-related economies in the global advertising and marketing services business. A translog cost function is employed wherein a firm's costs vary according to its scale and two...

RESPONSE SET AND THE MEASUREMENT OF SELF-DESIGNATED OPINION LEADERSHIP (1971)

SILK, ALVIN J.

The internal consistency and discriminant validity of the items comprising the Rogers self-designating opinion leadership scale were investigated utilizing notions suggested by Campbell and Fiske's...

RESPONSE SET AND THE MEASUREMENT OF SELF-DESIGNATED OPINION LEADERSHIP (1971)

SILK, ALVIN J.

The internal consistency and discriminant validity of the items comprising the Rogers self-designating opinion leadership scale were investigated utilizing notions suggested by Campbell and Fiske's...

Small group theory and marketing research, (1971)

Davis, Harry L., Silk, Alvin J.

"To appear as a chapter in Robert Ferber, ed. Handbook of Marketing Research."

An exploratory study of undergraduates' attitudes toward a business career. (1968)

Silk, Alvin J.

Ph. D. (Business Administration) - Northwestern University, 1968.

The use of preference and perception measures in new product development: an exposition and review. (1968)

Silk, Alvin J.

Prepared for use in the Management Science in Marketing summer session at M.I.T., Sept., 1968.

Knowledge Spillovers and Growth in the Disagglomeration of the Us Advertising-Agency Industry

Charles King, Alvin J. Silk, Niels Ketelhöhn

We investigate knowledge spillovers and externalities in the disagglomeration and growth of the advertising-agency industry. A simple model of high demand, low wages, and externalities associated...

The Internalization of Advertising Services: An Inter-IndustryAnalysis

Sharon Horsky, Steven C. Michael, Alvin J. Silk

The common perception appears to be that vertical integration of advertising services is more the exception than the rule in the U.S. advertising industry. This study investigates the extent of such...

Economic Factors Underlying the Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services

Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis, Alvin J. Silk

This paper addresses a longstanding puzzle involving the unbundling of services that has occurred over more than two decades in the U.S. advertising agency industry: How can the shift from the...

Concentration Levels in the U.S. Advertising and Marketing Services Industry: Myth vs. Reality

Alvin J. Silk, Charles King III

This paper analyzes changes in concentration levels in the U.S. Advertising and Marketing Services (A&MS) industry using publicly released data that have been largely ignored in past discussions of...

Scale and Scope Effects on Advertising Agency Costs

Alvin J. Silk, Ernst R. Berndt

How important are economies of scale and scope in advertising agency operations? This paper reports an econometric study undertaken to address this question. Cost models are formulated which...

Costs, Institutional Mobility Barriers, and Market Structure: Advertising Agencies as Multiproduct Firms

Alvin J. Silk, Ernst R. Berndt

What accounts for the diversity and limited concentration that has long characterized the organization of the advertising agency industry? This question is addressed by treating an advertising agency...

Intermedia Substitutability and Market Demand by National Advertisers

Alvin J. Silk, Lisa R. Klein, Ernst R. Berndt

We assess substitutable and complementary relationships among eight national advertising media classes, as well as the magnitude of their own-price elasticities. We use a translog demand model, whose...

Scale and Scope Economies in the Global Advertising and Marketing Services Business

Alvin J. Silk, Ernst R. Berndt

We assess size and scope-related economies in the global advertising and marketing services business. A translog cost function is employed wherein a firm's costs vary according to its scale and two...