Measuring and Understanding Brand Value in a Dynamic Model of Brand Management

74 Pages Posted: 27 May 2015 Last revised: 2 Jun 2016

See all articles by Ron N. Bar (formerly Borkovsky)

Ron N. Bar (formerly Borkovsky)

Independent

Avi Goldfarb

University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management

Avery Haviv

University of Rochester - Simon Business School

Sridhar Moorthy

University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management

Date Written: May 27, 2016

Abstract

We develop a structural model of brand management to estimate the value of a brand to a firm. In our framework, a brand's value is the expected net present value of future cash flows accruing to a firm due to its brand; our brand value measure recognizes that a firm can change its brand equity by investing in advertising. We estimate quarterly brand values in the stacked chips category for the period 2001-2006, and explore how those values change over time. Comparing our brand value measure to its static counterpart, we find that a static measure, which ignores advertising and its ability to affect brand equity dynamics, yields brand values that are artificially high and that fluctuate too much over time. We also explore how changing the ability to build and sustain brand equity affects brand value. At our estimated parameterization, when brand equity depreciates more slowly, or when advertising becomes more effective at building brand equity, brand value increases. However, counterintuitively, we find that when the effectiveness of advertising is sufficiently high, increasing the rate at which brand equity depreciates increases the value of a firm's brand, even as it reduces the value of the firm overall.

Keywords: branding; brand value; structural estimation; dynamic oligopoly

Suggested Citation

Bar, Ron N. and Goldfarb, Avi and Haviv, Avery and Moorthy, Sridhar, Measuring and Understanding Brand Value in a Dynamic Model of Brand Management (May 27, 2016). Simon Business School Working Paper No. FR 15-18, Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 2600716, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2600716 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2600716

Avi Goldfarb

University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management ( email )

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Avery Haviv

University of Rochester - Simon Business School ( email )

Rochester, NY 14627
United States

Sridhar Moorthy

University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management ( email )

105 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E6 M5S1S4
Canada

HOME PAGE: http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/~moorthy

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