Bayesian Analysis of Random Coefficient Logit Models Using Aggregate Data

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renna Jiang ◽  
Puneet Manchanda ◽  
Peter E. Rossi
2009 ◽  
Vol 149 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renna Jiang ◽  
Puneet Manchanda ◽  
Peter E. Rossi

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-108
Author(s):  
Zsolt Sándor

Abstract We study Monte Carlo simulation in some recent versions of random coefficient logit models that contain large sums of expressions involving multivariate integrals. Such large sums occur in the random coefficient logit with demographic characteristics, the random coefficient logit with limited consumer information and the design of choice experiments for the panel mixed logit. We show that certain quasi-Monte Carlo methods, that is, so-called (t, m, s)-nets, provide improved performance over pseudo-Monte Carlo methods in terms of bias, standard deviation and root mean squared error.


2009 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 531-542 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sungho Park ◽  
Sachin Gupta

The authors propose a simulated maximum likelihood estimation method for the random coefficient logit model using aggregate data, accounting for heterogeneity and endogeneity. The method allows for two sources of randomness in observed market shares: unobserved product characteristics and sampling error. Because of the latter, the method is suitable when sample sizes underlying the shares are finite. In contrast, Berry, Levinsohn and Pakes's commonly used approach assumes that observed shares have no sampling error. The method can be viewed as a generalization of Villas-Boas and Winer's approach and is closely related to Petrin and Train's “control function” approach. The authors show that the proposed method provides unbiased and efficient estimates of demand parameters. They also obtain endogeneity test statistics as a by-product, including the direction of endogeneity bias. The model can be extended to incorporate Markov regime-switching dynamics in parameters and is open to other extensions based on maximum likelihood. The benefits of the proposed approach are achieved by assuming normality of the unobserved demand attributes, an assumption that imposes constraints on the types of pricing behaviors that are accommodated. However, the authors find in simulations that demand estimates are fairly robust to violations of these assumptions.


1987 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
William G. Fortney ◽  
Robert B. Miller

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