Bayesian Conjoint Choice Designs for Measuring Willingness to Pay

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 48 - Trang 129-149 - 2010
Bart Vermeulen1, Peter Goos2,3, Riccardo Scarpa4,5, Martina Vandebroek6
1Faculty of Business and Economics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
2Faculty of Applied Economics & StatUA Center for Statistics, Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium
3Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
4Economics Department, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
5School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia
6Faculty of Business and Economics & Leuven Statistics Research Centre, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Tóm tắt

In this paper, we propose a new criterion for selecting efficient conjoint choice designs when the interest is in quantifying willingness to pay (WTP). The new criterion, which we call the WTP-optimality criterion, is based on the c-optimality criterion which is often used in the optimal experimental design literature. We use a simulation study to evaluate the designs generated using the WTP-optimality criterion and discuss the design of a real-life conjoint experiment from the literature. The results show that the new criterion leads to designs that yield more precise estimates of the WTP than Bayesian D-optimal conjoint choice designs, which are increasingly being seen as the state-of-the-art designs for conjoint choice studies, and to a substantial reduction in the occurrence of unrealistically high WTP estimates.

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