The extensive literature on the dynamic effects of marketing instruments has concentrated solely on lagged effects. However, lead effects, caused by the anticipations of consumers and other economic agents, are also important. The authors show how ignoring these effects results in an overestimate of the elasticity and profitability of common methods of sales promotion. They propose a more general approach to the specification and estimation of dynamic response functions.
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