Mentzer and Moon apply their 25 years of sales forecasting management research to their techniques for sales forecasting. They cover managing the process, performance measurement regression analysis, qualitative sales forecasting, and forecasting systems. The second edition has been reorganized...

Soon after beginning operations, the Federal Reserve established a nationwide network for collecting information about the economy. In 1919, the Fed began tabulating data by about retail sales, which it viewed as a fundamental measure of consumption. From 1920 until 1929, the Federal Reserve...

For years, online retailers have maintained a price advantage over brick-and-mortar retailers by not collecting sales tax at the time of sale. Recently, several states have required that online retailer Amazon collect sales tax during checkout. Using transaction-level data, we document that...