The Role of "Live" in Livestreaming Markets: Evidence Using Orthogonal Random Forest

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.01629v1
• Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2021 13:50:54 GMT
• Title: The Role of "Live" in Livestreaming Markets: Evidence Using Orthogonal Random Forest
• Abstract summary: We estimate how demand responds to price before, on the day of, and after the livestream. We find significant dynamics in the price elasticity of demand over the temporal distance to the scheduled livestreaming day and after. We provide suggestive evidence for the likely mechanisms driving our results.
• Score: 5.993591729907003
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: The common belief about the growing medium of livestreaming is that its value lies in its "live" component. In this paper, we leverage data from a large livestreaming platform to examine this belief. We are able to do this as this platform also allows viewers to purchase the recorded version of the livestream. We summarize the value of livestreaming content by estimating how demand responds to price before, on the day of, and after the livestream. We do this by proposing a generalized Orthogonal Random Forest framework. This framework allows us to estimate heterogeneous treatment effects in the presence of high-dimensional confounders whose relationships with the treatment policy (i.e., price) are complex but partially known. We find significant dynamics in the price elasticity of demand over the temporal distance to the scheduled livestreaming day and after. Specifically, demand gradually becomes less price sensitive over time to the livestreaming day and is inelastic on the livestreaming day. Over the post-livestream period, demand is still sensitive to price, but much less than the pre-livestream period. This indicates that the vlaue of livestreaming persists beyond the live component. Finally, we provide suggestive evidence for the likely mechanisms driving our results. These are quality uncertainty reduction for the patterns pre- and post-livestream and the potential of real-time interaction with the creator on the day of the livestream.

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