Periodic demand forecasts are the primary planning and coordination mechanism within organizations. Because most demand … examine whether a disaggregation of the forecast into various sources of demand reduces forecast error and bias. Using … proprietary data from a manufacturing organization, we find that absolute demand forecast error declines following the …

-unitary expenditure elasticities of import demand implied by non-homothetic preferences in the previous year to be further combined with …

The dynamics of demand, moderately negative in comparison with the pessimistic forecasts, allowed the industry to avoid … situation and a drop in demand, was prepared to sacrifice growth of prices to maintain sales. However, this was not required in …