User profiles for Demetrios Vakratsas

Demetrios Vakratsas

Professor of Marketing and Bensadoun School of Retail Management Scholar, McGill …
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How advertising works: what do we really know?

D Vakratsas, T Ambler - Journal of marketing, 1999 - journals.sagepub.com
The authors review more than 250 journal articles and books to establish what is and should
be known about how advertising affects the consumer—how it works. They first deduce a …

The shape of advertising response functions revisited: A model of dynamic probabilistic thresholds

D Vakratsas, FM Feinberg, FM Bass… - Marketing …, 2004 - pubsonline.informs.org
Prior work in marketing has suggested that advertising threshold effects—levels beneath
which there is essentially no sales response—are rarely encountered in practice. Because …

Artificial intelligence in advertising creativity

D Vakratsas, X Wang - Journal of Advertising, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The authors propose a creative advertising system (CAS) for the generation and testing of
advertising creative ideas, founded on artificial intelligence (AI) principles. The proposed …

The impact of advertising creative strategy on advertising elasticity

F Dall'Olio, D Vakratsas - Journal of Marketing, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This study provides a comprehensive assessment of the impact of advertising creative strategy
(ACS) on advertising elasticity, founded on an integrative framework that distinguishes …

The anatomy of the advertising budget decision: How analytics and heuristics drive sales performance

C Kolsarici, D Vakratsas… - Journal of Marketing …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The authors investigate how heuristics and analytics contribute to the advertising budget
decision by decomposing it into four components: (1) baseline spending, (2) adaptive …

Category-versus brand-level advertising messages in a highly regulated environment

C Kolsarici, D Vakratsas - Journal of Marketing Research, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
The authors examine the dynamic effects of category- and brand-level advertising for a new
pharmaceutical in a market in which regulations require that the content of these two types of …

A look at the long-run effectiveness of multimedia advertising and its implications for budget allocation decisions

D Vakratsas, Z Ma - Journal of Advertising Research, 2005 - cambridge.org
This study examines the long-term effectiveness of multimedia advertising in a competitive
setting and its implications for budget allocation decisions, using multivariate persistence …

A dual-market diffusion model for a new prescription pharmaceutical

D Vakratsas, C Kolsarici - International Journal of Research in Marketing, 2008 - Elsevier
Despite the proliferation of diffusion models and a plethora of applications in many different
markets and domains, relatively little research has been conducted on prescription drug …

Scientific Evidence Production and Specialty Drug Diffusion

D Vakratsas, WL Wang - Journal of Marketing, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Specialty drugs treat complex, severe diseases and offer significant therapeutic advances.
Despite their potential to transform patient care, little is known about the drivers of their …

The dual impact of product line length on consumer choice

WL Wang, D Vakratsas - Production and Operations …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Although extant literature has argued for both positive and negative effects of product line
length on choice, ie a “dual impact,” such a possibility has not been empirically investigated. …