@article{Zheng:9938, recid = {9938}, author = {Zheng, Yuqing and Kinnucan, Henry W. and Kaiser, Harry M.}, title = {Measuring and Testing Advertising-Induced Rotation in the Demand Curve}, address = {2007}, number = {381-2016-22097}, series = {Selected Paper 172302}, pages = {35}, year = {2007}, abstract = {Advertising can rotate the demand curve if it changes the dispersion of consumers' valuations. We provide an elasticity form measure of the advertising-induced demand curve rotation in five demand models and test for its presence in the U.S. non-alcoholic beverage market. The AIDS model reveals that doubling advertising spending rotates the demand curves clockwise for milk, and coffee and tea with associated slope changes of 7.3% and 11.6%. Soft-drink advertising rotates its demand curve counterclockwise. Our policy suggestion is that milk and soft-drink firms might enhance profits by timing advertising to coincide with high- and low-price periods, respectively.}, url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/9938}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.9938}, }