This article uses the multinomial modeling technique (Batchelder 1998) to decompose the brand-switching matrix of the RLZ model and produces conditional probabilities for alternative decision outcomes (Rust, Lemon, and Zeithaml 2004; Rust, Lemon, and Narayandas 2005). It then links the probabilities...

GDP and derived metrics such as productivity have been central to our understanding of economic progress and well-being. In principle, changes in consumer surplus provide a superior, and more direct, measure of changes in well-being, especially for digital goods. In practice, these alternatives...

GDP and derived metrics (e.g., productivity) have been central to understanding economic progress and well-being. In principle, the change in consumer surplus (compensating expenditure) provides a superior, and more direct, measure of the change in well-being, especially for digital goods, but...

In a recent article, Vincent Geloso (2015) argues that the study of social networks can illuminate Deirdre McCloskey's view that modern economic growth was fostered by according entrepreneurial actions a sense of dignity. I extend Geloso's framework to suggest that an ‘analytical egalitarian'...