Marketing response and temporal aggregation

Abstract

This paper deals with inferring key parameters on marketing response at a true high frequency while data are partly or fully available only at a lower frequency aggregate levels. The familiar Koyck model turns out to be very useful for this purpose. Assuming this model for the high-frequency data makes it possible to infer the high-frequency parameters from modified Koyck type models when lower frequency data are available. This means that inference using the Koyck model is robust to temporal aggregation.