Othellonia: Growing a Mobile Game
Citation:
Ascarza, Eva, Tomomichi Amano, and Sunil Gupta. "Othellonia: Growing a Mobile Game." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 520-710, December 2019. (Revised July 2020.) View Details|
Working Paper HBS Working Paper Series 2019 Large-Scale Demand Estimation with Search Data |
Abstract
In many online markets, traditional methods of demand estimation are difficult to implement because assortments are very large and individual products are sold infrequently. At the same time, data on consumer search (i.e., browsing) behavior are often available and are much more abundant than purchase data. We propose a demand model that caters to this type of setting. Our approach is computationally light and allows for flexible cross-price elasticities that are informed by search patterns. We apply the model to a data set containing search and purchase information from a retailer stocking almost 600 products, recover the elasticity matrix, and solve for optimal prices for the entire assortment.
Keywords: high-dimensional data; demand estimation; consideration sets; consumer search;
Citation:
Amano, Tomomichi, Andrew Rhodes, and Stephan Seiler. "Large-Scale Demand Estimation with Search Data." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-022, September 2018. (Revised June 2019. Stanford University Research Paper, No. 18-36, 8-20 2018.)
