Measuring willingness to pay as a range, revisited : When should we care?

Dost, Florian and Wilken, Robert (2012) Measuring willingness to pay as a range, revisited : When should we care? International Journal of Research in Marketing, 29 (2). pp. 148-166. ISSN 0167-8116

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Abstract

Recent research has conceptualized consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) as a range rather than as a single point. However, there are important gaps in this research stream: The existing method to measure WTP as a range, ICERANGE, features restrictive assumptions and is rather complex, such that it hampers real-world applications. Furthermore, it is unclear what has been measured in the past with point-based methods, compared with WTP ranges; thus, researchers cannot evaluate “traditional” WTP measurements. Most importantly, why should anyone even care about WTP ranges? In making pricing decisions, aggregate-level information is common, and the add-on information contained in individual WTP ranges would seemingly become obsolete when averaging it across consumers. This article addresses all three issues: We show empirically that traditional point-based methods reveal the midpoint of WTP ranges. Our proposed range-based method, which is simpler and less restricted than ICERANGE, achieves comparable performance. We use a Monte Carlo simulation to show that, except for in rather artificial conditions, point-based methods fail to reproduce the revenue-maximizing prices identified by range-based methods. Together, these results deliver a compelling argument for the use of range-based methods to elicit WTP in real-world applications.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
International Journal of Research in Marketing
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
?? willingness to pay as a rangeicerangebdm mechanismdemand functionsmonte carlo simulationmarketing ??
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87725
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Deposited On:
13 Sep 2017 09:16
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Yes
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Published
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