Effects of product availability
Subtitle: experimental evidence
By: Christopher T. Conlon, Julie Holland Mortimer
Contributors: Mortimer, Julie Holland; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16506; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16506.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Description: "Product availability impacts many industries such as transportation, events, and retail, yet little empirical evidence documents the importance of stocking decisions for firm profits, vertical relationships, or consumers.  We conduct several experiments, exogenously removing top-selling products from a set of vending machines and analyzing substitution patterns and profit impacts of the changed product availability using nonparametric analyses and structural demand estimation.  We find substantial switching to alternate products, and evidence of misaligned incentives between upstream and downstream firms in the choice of which products to carry.  We discuss the trade-offs of both empirical approaches for analyzing product availability effects generally"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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