Abstract:Price differentiation may not be as effective in increasing profitability due to imperfect segmentation, arbitrage, and, cannibalization. Cannibalization takes place when customer with higher willingness-to-pay buys lower-priced product. This research proposes an approach to incorporating cannibalization into pricing optimization using choice data. From choice data, individual level utilities are estimated using hierarchical Bayes and individual choice is predicted using randomized first choice simulation. Ind… Show more
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