Micro-responses to shocks: Pricing, promotion, and entry

Sofronis Clerides, Alexis Antoniades and Mingzhi (Jimmy) Xu

No 13281, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: We study the market response to firm-specific demand shocks in a natural experiment setting. In 2006, a boycott of Danish products in several Arab countries was devastating for Danish cheese products firms. In Saudi Arabia their market share collapsed from 16.5% in January to below 1% in March and never fully recovered: by 2009 it was 6.3%. By analyzing micro-level (scanner) price and sales data, we find that: (i) Danish firms lowered prices but kept the product mix the same; (ii) non-Danish firms kept prices constant but changed their product mix by introducing new products and new product bundles; and (iii) non-Danish firms chose to introduce products that were similar to the Danish in characteristic space in order to compete head-to-head. We complement the analysis with a theoretical framework that helps to account for our main findings.

Keywords: Boycotts; Multi-product firms; Demand shock; Saudi arabia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-10
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