%0 Journal Article %@ 1873-2887 %A Dawid, H. %A Feichtinger, G. %D 1995 %F iiasa:4265 %I Elsevier %J Chaos, Solitons and Fractals %N 1 %P 45-53 %R 10.1016/0960-0779(94)00208-8 %T Complex optimal policies in an advertising diffusion model %U https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/4265/ %V 5 %X In this paper we analyse a one state dynamic programming model, which has been frequently used in marketing. Using a variation of the Boldrin-Montrucchio technique for the inverse problem we are able to construct a separable return function, which guarantees that the optimal policy shows topological chaos.