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| Ralf Dewenter and Ulrich Heimeshoff |
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| ''Predicting Advertising Volumes Using Structural Time
Series Models: A Case Study
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| ( 2017, Vol. 37 No.3 ) |
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| Media platforms typically operate in a two-sided market, where advertising space serves as a major source of revenues. However, advertising volumes are highly volatile over time and characterized by cyclical behavior. Firms' marketing expenditures in general are far from stable. Due to planning of future issues as well as financial planning, platforms have to forecast the demand for advertising space in their future issues. We use structural time series analysis to predict advertising volumes and compare the results with simple autoregressive models. |
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| Keywords: advertising volumes, cyclical behavior, AR-processes, structural time series models. |
JEL: C5 - Econometric Modeling: General
L8 - Industry Studies: Services: General |
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| Manuscript Received : Feb 16 2017 | | Manuscript Accepted : Jul 16 2017 |
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