This paper focuses on the literature related to customer lifetime value measurement. It first discusses the issues related to the context of CLV measurement and presents a contextual framework for understanding and categorizing models of CLV. The paper then reviews some prominent models for...

Measuring customer lifetime value (CLV) in contexts where customer defections are not observed, i.e. noncontractual contexts, has been very challenging for firms. This paper proposes a flexible Generalized Simulation-based estimation Framework (GSF) for predicting lifetimes and measuring...