The multinomial logit model (MNL) is one of the most frequently used statistical models in marketing applications. It allows to relate an unordered categorical response variable, for example representing the choice of a brand, to a vector of covariates such as the price of the brand or variables...

The multinomial logit model is frequently used in marketing research to explain consumers' brand choice decisions. In almost all applications of this model, the parameters of the consumers' utility function are assumed to be constant across time. In contrast to this assumption, both marketing...