Estimating price expectations in the OTC medicine market: An application of dynamic stochastic discrete choice models to scanner panel data

Journal of Econometrics

Volumn 89, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 41-56

  Gönül, Füsun F ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic programming; Price expectations; Scanner panel data; Structural model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346856945     PISSN: 03044076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4076(98)00054-2     Document Type: Article

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