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Pricing · Longitudinal market-data analysis of a permanent price change using dynamic demand modeling.

An Empirical Investigation of the Dynamic Effect of Marlboro's Permanent Pricing Shift

Marketing Science · 2009

Peter S. Fader, Bruce G. S. Hardie

Summary

A permanent price change had dynamic, asymmetric effects on brand demand and competitive response rather than only an immediate static effect.

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Possible founder application

Use as a bounded example of an empirical investigation of the dynamic effect of marlboro's permanent pricing shift; compare its context and design with your own market before applying its result.

Reported result

What the study found

A permanent price change had dynamic, asymmetric effects on brand demand and competitive response rather than only an immediate static effect.

Research question

What the authors investigated

An Empirical Investigation of the Dynamic Effect of Marlboro's Permanent Pricing Shift?

Design

Longitudinal market-data analysis of a permanent price change using dynamic demand modeling.

Sample and setting

U.S. cigarette category, with Marlboro and competing brands observed before and after the price shift.

Scope and transfer

Limitations to keep in view

A single branded-cigarette event is a narrow natural experiment; concurrent category shocks and regulatory conditions constrain causal generalization. The accessible publisher page was used for this listing; correction history was not independently checked.

Research sources

Crossref and INFORMS DOI record identify this peer-reviewed Marketing Science empirical pricing study. Publisher page was directly retrieved; detailed full-text methods were not independently verified.

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