Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/225213 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Citation: 
[Journal:] International Journal of the Economics of Business [ISSN:] 1466-1829 [Volume:] 26 [Issue:] 1 [Publisher:] Routledge [Place:] London [Year:] 2019 [Pages:] 157-176
Publisher: 
Routledge, London
Abstract: 
Most marketing practitioners and scholars agree that marketing assets such as brand equity significantly contribute to a firm’s financial performance. In this paper, we model brand equity as an unobservable stock that results from up to 30 years of past brand-related investment flows. Using firm-specific trademarks as investment proxies, our results show a significant long-run impact on financial performance. The dynamic profile of brand-related investments has an inverted-U shape that reaches its peak after 11 years. On average, it takes four years before brand-related investments show a positive return, and investments older than 19 years show no significant impact. For the median trademarking firm, brand equity contributes €265,000 to annual profits.
Subjects: 
Brand Equity
Firm Profitability
Intellectual Property Rights
Trademarks
JEL: 
O31
O34
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version






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