Sales: Tests of theories on causality and timing

International Journal of Industrial Organization

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1257-1273

  Berck, Peter ^a   Brown, Jennifer ^a   Perloff, Jeffrey M ^a   Villas Boas, Sofia Berto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Causality; Price promotions; Sales

Indexed keywords

FRUIT JUICES; LABELS; TESTING; VECTORS;

AUTO-REGRESSIVE; CAUSALITY; ORANGE JUICES; PRICE PROMOTIONS; PRIVATE LABELS; PRIVATE-LABEL BRANDS; SCANNER DATA; TEMPORAL PATTERN; TEMPORAL-ORDERING;

SALES;

EID: 53249123261     PISSN: 01677187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijindorg.2007.12.007     Document Type: Article

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