This monograph provides a review of choice models in marketing from the perspective of a utility maximizing consumer subject to budgetary restrictions. Marketing models of choice have undergone many transformations over the last 20 years, and the advent to hierarchical Bayes models indicate that...

Conjoint choice experiments are used widely in marketing to study consumer preferences amongst alternative products. We develop a class of choice models, belonging to the class of Poisson race models, that describe a random utility which lends itself to a process-based description of choice. The...

Retailers of consumer durables often enable customers to configure products; this study reveals how companies can structure this customization process to increase sales. Three empirical studies demonstrate that combining choices about standardized products and configurator tasks is more...

In this paper we study the identification of discrete choice models of dynamically optimizing consumers. We first provide additional formal results for existing identification solutions. We then investigate the ‘last in, last out' (LILO) constraint on consuming from the inventory as a means to...

Bayesian models have become a mainstay in the tool set for marketing research in academia and industry practice. In this chapter, I discuss the advantages the Bayesian approach offers to researchers in marketing, the essential building blocks of a Bayesian model, Bayesian model comparison, and...

Industry sentiment and practitioners’ observations link income and wealth to private-label demand. The intuition is that decreasing income and wealth increase the demand for (cheaper) private labels. Recent academic research focusses on measuring the causal effect of income and wealth changes...

During the completion of a conjoint task, fatigue, boredom, or task simplification strategies and learning effects may cause unobserved changes in individual consumer preferences. We propose a hierarchical Bayesian dynamic switching model that we call Change Point Heterogeneity model (CPHM) to...