Marketing Models
Detailed Course Outline and Reading List

Week 8:  Research Tools (1) - Conjoint and Discrete Choice Modeling
March 7
 


Readings

Background

  1. Re-read LKM Chapter 2, especially beginning p. 40.  Also, p. 669-72.

  2. Guadagni, P. M. and J. D. C. Little (1983), “A Logit Model of Brand Choice Calibrated on Scanner Data,” Marketing Science, 203-238.

  3. Meyer, Robert and Eric Johnson (1995), “Empirical Generalizations in the Modeling of Consumer Choice,” Marketing Science, 14, G180-189.

Conjoint Analysis

  1. Johnson, Richard M. (1974), “Trade-Off Analysis of Consumer Values,” Journal of Marketing Research, 11 (2), 121-7.  Co-winner of the William F. O’Dell Award

  2. Green, Paul E. (1984), “Hybrid Models for Conjoint Analysis:  An Expository Review,” Journal of Marketing Research, 21 (2), 155-69.  1989 William F. O’Dell Award

  3. Green, Paul E., J. Douglas Carroll and Stephen M. Goldberg (1981), “A General Approach to Product Design Optimization via Conjoint Analysis,” Journal of Marketing, 45 (3), 17-37.  1981 Alpha Kappa Psi [now MSI / H. Paul Root] Award.

Recent Discrete Choice Models

  1. Tulin Erdem and Michael P. Keane (1996), “Decision-Making under Uncertainty: Capturing Dynamic Brand Choice Processes in Turbulent Consumer Goods Markets,” Marketing Science, 15 (1), 1-20.  1996 John D. C. Little Award

  2. Heilman, Carrie M., Douglas Bowman and Gordon P. Wright (2000), “The Evolution of Brand Preferences and Choice Behaviors of Consumers New to a Market,” Journal of Marketing Research, 37 (2), 139-55.  2001 Paul E. Green Award

Assignments
  1. Prepare a lecture (with detailed notes for course participants) for the two papers that are assigned to you.  You will be graded on your presentation and notes.  [This assignment is in lieu of critical reviews.]