Do We Exploit all Information for Counterfactual Analysis? Benefits of Factor Models and Idiosyncratic Correction
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反事实分析是否充分利用信息？因子模型与特异成分修正的作用
- 研究问题
- 当价格内生且价格效应在城市间高度异质时，如何为少数接受价格调整的地区构造反事实，估计销售反应及价格弹性？
- 方法与思路
- 作者提出 FarmTreat，将主成分因子与稀疏回归结合，用未处理地区构造反事实，并分析巴西零售商五类产品的日销售和价格。
- 材料陈述的贡献
- 摘要称该高维方法用于四百多个市镇的价格实验，结果支持价格效应高度异质，意味着不同市镇可能对应不同的定价策略。
- 阅读关注点
- 应核对价格实验的分配方式、因子与特异成分的估计步骤、对照地区可用性，以及销量效应转化为弹性的计算依据。
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- 这是 arXiv 预印本，不能据此认定已通过同行评审或获期刊接收；摘要未说明完整识别条件、弹性数值或定价策略的外部有效性。
原文摘要
Optimal pricing, i.e., determining the price level that maximizes profit or revenue of a given product, is a vital task for the retail industry. To select such a quantity, one needs first to estimate the price elasticity from the product demand. Regression methods usually fail to recover such elasticities due to confounding effects and price endogeneity. Therefore, randomized experiments are typically required. However, elasticities can be highly heterogeneous depending on the location of stores, for example. As the randomization frequently occurs at the municipal level, standard difference-in-differences methods may also fail. Possible solutions are based on methodologies to measure the effects of treatments on a single (or just a few) treated unit(s) based on counterfactuals constructed from artificial controls. For example, for each city in the treatment group, a counterfactual may be constructed from the untreated locations. In this paper, we apply a novel high-dimensional statistical method to measure the effects of price changes on daily sales from a major retailer in Brazil. The proposed methodology combines principal components (factors) and sparse regressions, resulting in a method called Factor-Adjusted Regularized Method for Treatment evaluation (\texttt{FarmTreat}). The data consist of daily sales and prices of five different products over more than 400 municipalities. The products considered belong to the \emph{sweet and candies} category and experiments have been conducted over the years of 2016 and 2017. Our results confirm the hypothesis of a high degree of heterogeneity yielding very different pricing strategies over distinct municipalities.