SMOOTH QUANTILE-BASED MODELING OF BRAND SALES, PRICE AND PROMOTIONAL EFFECTS FROM RETAIL SCANNER PANELS

Haupt, Harry and Kagerer, Kathrin and Steiner, Winfried J. (2014) SMOOTH QUANTILE-BASED MODELING OF BRAND SALES, PRICE AND PROMOTIONAL EFFECTS FROM RETAIL SCANNER PANELS. JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECONOMETRICS, 29 (6). pp. 1007-1028. ISSN 0883-7252, 1099-1255

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Abstract

Semiparametric quantile regression is employed to flexibly estimate sales response for frequently purchased consumer goods. Using retail store-level data, we compare the performance of models with and without monotonic smoothing for fit and prediction accuracy. We find that (a) flexible models with monotonicity constraints imposed on price effects dominate both in-sample and out-of-sample comparisons while being robust even at the boundaries of the price distribution when data is sparse; (b) quantile-based confidence intervals are much more accurate compared to least-squares-based intervals; (c) specifications reflecting that managers may not have exact knowledge about future competitive pricing perform extremely well. Copyright (c) 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION; REGRESSION APPROACH; P-SPLINES; DISCRETE; ELASTICITIES;
Subjects: 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics
Divisions: Business, Economics and Information Systems > Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre und Ökonometrie > Lehrstuhl für Ökonometrie (Prof. Dr. Rolf Tschernig)
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Date Deposited: 14 Aug 2019 10:12
Last Modified: 14 Aug 2019 10:12
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/9609

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