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Determinants of Advertising Effectiveness: The Development of an International Advertising Elasticity Database and a Meta-Analysis

Abstract

Increasing demand for marketing accountability requires an efficient allocation of marketing expenditures. Managers who know the elasticity of their marketing instruments can allocate their budgets optimally. Meta-analyses offer a basis for deriving benchmark elasticities for advertising. Although they provide a variety of valuable insights, a major shortcoming of prior meta-analyses is that they report only generalized results as the disaggregated raw data are not made available. This problem is highly relevant because coding of empirical studies, at least to a certain extent, involves subjective judgment. For this reason, meta-studies would be more valuable if researchers and practitioners had access to disaggregated data allowing them to conduct further analyses of individual, e.g., product-level-specific, interests. We are the first to address this gap by providing (1) an advertising elasticity database (AED) and (2) empirical generalizations about advertising elasticities and their determinants. Our findings indicate that the average current-period advertising elasticity is 0.09, which is substantially smaller than the value 0f 0.12 that was recently reported by Sethuraman, Tellis, and Briesch (2011). Furthermore, our meta-analysis reveals a wide range of significant determinants of advertising elasticity. For example, we find that advertising elasticities are higher (i) for hedonic and experience goods than for other goods; (ii) for new than for established goods; (iii) when advertising is measured in gross rating points (GRP) instead of absolute terms; and (iv) when the lagged dependent or lagged advertising variable is omitted.

Keywords

URN: urn:nbn:de:0009-20-32096
jel:
- C10
- D12
- M37

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Web-Appendix 1: Advertising Elasticity Database (AED), Excel-File [ view | download ]
Web-Appendix 2: Coding Description of Variables (Coding Handbook), PDF-File [ view | download ]
Web-Appendix 3: Elasticity Calculations for Certain Empirical Studies, Excel-File [ view | download ]
Web-Appendix 4: Estimation Results and Robustness Checks, Excel-File [ view | download ]
Web-Appendix 5: Correlation Matrix of Meta-Regression Variables, Excel-File [ view | download ]

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Recommended citation

Henningsen S, Heuke R, Clement M (2011). Determinants of Advertising Effectiveness: The Development of an International Advertising Elasticity Database and a Meta-Analysis. BuR - Business Research, Vol. 4, Iss. 2, pp. 193-239, URN: urn:nbn:de:0009-20-32096

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