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Causal Inference with Endogenous Price Response

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  • Przemyslaw Jeziorski
  • Dingzhe Leng
  • Stephan Seiler

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We study the estimation of causal treatment effects on demand when treatment is randomly assigned but prices adjust in response to treatment. We show that regressions of demand on treatment or on treatment and price lead to biased estimates of the direct treatment effect. The bias in both cases depends on the correlation of price with treatment and points in the same direction. In most cases including an endogenous price control reduces bias but does not remove it. We show how to test whether bias from an endogenous price response arises and how to recover an unbiased treatment effect (holding price constant) using a price instrument. We apply our approach to the estimation of the impact of feature advertising across several product categories using supermarket scanner data and show that the bias when not instrumenting for price can be substantial.

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  • Przemyslaw Jeziorski & Dingzhe Leng & Stephan Seiler, 2025. "Causal Inference with Endogenous Price Response," CESifo Working Paper Series 11898, CESifo.
    • Handle: RePEc:ces:ceswps:_11898
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    Keywords

    causal Inference; endogeneity; endogenous controls; instrumental variables;
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    JEL classification:

    • C26 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Instrumental Variables (IV) Estimation
    • C31 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions; Social Interaction Models
    • D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
    • M31 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Marketing and Advertising - - - Marketing

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