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Habit, aggregation and long memory: evidence from television audience data
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Abstract Many economic outcomes appear to be influenced by habit or commitment, giving rise to persistence. In cases where the decision is binary and persistent, the aggregation of individual time series can result in a fractionally integrated process for the aggregate data. Certain television programmes app... view more
Many economic outcomes appear to be influenced by habit or commitment, giving rise to persistence. In cases where the decision is binary and persistent, the aggregation of individual time series can result in a fractionally integrated process for the aggregate data. Certain television programmes appear to engender commitment on the part of viewers and the decision to watch or not is clearly binary. We report an empirical analysis of television audience data and show that these series can be modelled as I(d) processes. We also investigate the proposition that temporal aggregation of a fractionally-integrated series leaves the value of d unchanged.... view less
Keywords
aggregation
Classification
Impact Research, Recipient Research
Broadcasting, Telecommunication
Free Keywords
Long Memory; Fractional Processes; Habit
Document language
English
Publication Year
2008
Page/Pages
p. 321-327
Journal
Applied Economics, 39 (2008) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00036840500428120
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)