Promotion carryover as a missing data problem

Holloway, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2058-4504 and Aydogus, O. (2004) Promotion carryover as a missing data problem. Journal of agricultural and food industrial organization, 2 (1). ISSN 1542-0485 doi: 10.2202/1542-0485.1053

Abstract/Summary

An important feature of agribusiness promotion programs is their lagged impact on consumption. Efficient investment in advertising requires reliable estimates of these lagged responses and it is desirable from both applied and theoretical standpoints to have a flexible method for estimating them. This note derives an alternative Bayesian methodology for estimating lagged responses when investments occur intermittently within a time series. The method exploits a latent-variable extension of the natural-conjugate, normal-linear model, Gibbs sampling and data augmentation. It is applied to a monthly time series on Turkish pasta consumption (1993:5-1998:3) and three, nonconsecutive promotion campaigns (1996:3, 1997:3, 1997:10). The results suggest that responses were greatest to the second campaign, which allocated its entire budget to television media; that its impact peaked in the sixth month following expenditure; and that the rate of return (measured in metric tons additional consumption per thousand dollars expended) was around a factor of 20.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/30705
Identification Number/DOI	10.2202/1542-0485.1053
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Life Sciences > School of Agriculture, Policy and Development > Department of Agri-Food Economics & Marketing
Publisher	De Gruyter
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