Faculty Profile

Dr. Michel Wedel
PepsiCo Professor of Consumer Science

Ph.D., University of Wageningen, Netherlands

Robert H. Smith School of Business
3303 Van Munching Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742

301.405.2162
301.405.0146 fax
mwedel@rhsmith.umd.edu

 

Joined University of Maryland 2006

Michel Wedel is the PepsiCo Professor of Consumer Science at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. His main research interest is in Consumer Science: the application of statistical and econometric methods to further the understanding of consumer behavior and to improve marketing decision making. He has won the Hendrik Muller lifetime award for the social and behavioral sciences awarded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences for “exceptional achievements in the area of the behavioral and social sciences,” and has been elected foreign correspondent of that Academy. He has also won the O’Dell best article award from the Journal of Marketing Research. He has written over 150 articles in peer reviewed journals that were cited more than 2000 times. He was ranked first among all scholars in economics and business in the Netherlands. He has supervised 12 PhD students, serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Classification, Quantitative Marketing and Economics, and Journal of Marketing, and is area editor for Marketing Science and The Journal of Marketing Research. He has published books on Market Segmentation, Models for Marketing Decisions and Visual Marketing. He has consulted for over 25 different companies in the nonprofit and profit sectors, including companies in market research, consulting, direct marketing, food, financial services, automotive, and telecommunications.

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

Honors and Awards

  • Hendrik Muller Award from the Netherlands Royal Academy for the Sciences for Outstanding Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences.
  • Ranked 3d (2005), 1st (2006) and 3d (2007) in productivity among Academics in Business and Economics in the Netherlands (http://center.uvt.nl/top40).

 

Selected Publications

The effectiveness of customized promotions in online and offline stores, Journal of Marketing Research, 2008, forthcoming, J. Zhang, M. Wedel.

My Mobile Music:  An Adaptive Personalization System for Digital Audio Players, Marketing Science, 2008, forthcoming.  Tuck Siong Chung, Roland Rust, Michel Wedel.

Split Questionnaire Design for Massive Surveys, Journal of Marketing Research, 2008, forthcoming.  F. Adiguzel, M. Wedel.

Competitive Brand Salience, Marketing Science, 2008, forthcoming.  R. Van der Lans, R. Pieters, M. Wedel.

Eye Movement Analysis of Search Effectiveness, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2008, forthcoming.  R. Van der Lans, F.G.M. Pieters, M. Wedel.

Optimal Feature Advertising Under Competitive Clutter, Management Science, 2007, 51 (11) 1815-1828, R. Pieters, M.Wedel, J. Zhang.

Goal Control of Visual Attention to Advertising: The Yarbus Implication, Journal of Consumer Research, 2007, 34 (August), 224-233. R.Pieters, M.Wedel.

Bayesian Estimation of Circumplex Random Effects Models Subject to Prior Theory Constrains and Subject-Specific Scale Usage Bias, Psychometrika, 2006, 71(1), 33-56. P. Lenk, M. Wedel, U. Bockenholt.

Improving Online Product Recommendations by Including Nonrated Items, Journal of Marketing Research, 2006, 43 (August), 355-365.  Y. Ying, F. Feinberg, M. Wedel.

Structural Modeling in Marketing: A Review and Assessment, P.Chintagunta, T. Erdem, P.E. Rossi, M. Wedel, Marketing Science, 2006, 25 (6), 604-616.

Differentiated Bayesian Conjoint Choice Designs, Journal of Marketing Research, 55, (May), 2005, 210-218, Z. Sandor, M. Wedel.

Attention Capture and Transfer by elements of Advertisements. Journal of Marketing, 68 (2), 2004, 36-50, F.G.M. Pieters, M. Wedel.

Analyzing Brand Competition across Subcategories, Journal of Marketing Research, 41 (4), 2004, 448-456, M. Wedel, J. Zhang.

Identifying Innovators for the Cross Selling of New Products, Management Science, 50 (8), 2004, 1120-1132.  W.A. Kamakura, B. Kosslar, M. Wedel.

The Representation of Local and Global Exploration Modes in Eye Movements through Bayesian Hidden Markov Models. Psychometrika, 68 (4), 2003, 519-542. J. Liechty, F.G.M. Pieters, M. Wedel.  First Discussion Paper in Psychometrika, with reactions:

The Influence of Moment-to-Moment Pleasantness and Informativeness on Zapping TV Commercials:  A Functional Data and Survival Analysis Approach, Journal of Marketing Research, 40 (4), 2003, 437-453.  J.L.C.M. Woltman Elpers, M. Wedel, F.G.M. Pieters.

Bayesian prediction in hybrid conjoint analysis, Journal of Marketing Research, 34 (2), 2002, 253-261, F. ter Hofstede, Y.Kim and M. Wedel.

Breaking through the Clutter: Benefits of Advertisement Originality and Familiarity for Brand Attention and Memory, Management Science, 48 (6), 2002, 765-781. F.G.M. Pieters, L. Warlop M. Wedel.

Identifying spatial segments in international markets. Marketing Science, 21 (2), 2002, 160-177, F. ter Hofstede, M. Wedel, J.B.E.M. Steenkamp.

Profile Construction in Experimental Choice Designs for Mixed Logit Models, Marketing Science, 21 (4), 2002, 455-475, Z. Sandor, M. Wedel.

Factor analysis with observed and latent variables in the exponential family, Psychometrika, 66 (4), 2001, 515-530, M. Wedel, W.A. Kamakura.

Designing Conjoint Choice Experiments Using Managers' Prior Beliefs. Journal of Marketing Research, 38 (4), 2001, 430-444. Z. Sándor, M. Wedel.

The spatial representation of market information, Marketing Science, 20 (4), 2001, 426-441, W.S. DeSarbo, A. Degeratu, M. Wedel, M.K. Saxton.

Factor Analysis and Missing Data, Journal of Marketing Research, 37 (November), 2000, 490-498, W.A. Kamakura, M. Wedel.

Eye fixations on advertisements and memory for brands: a model and findings. Marketing Science, 19 (4), 2000, 297-312, M. Wedel, F.G.M. Pieters.

The information content of response latencies in conjoint choice experiments, Journal of Marketing Research, 37 (3), 2000, 376-382, M.E. Haaijer, W.A. Kamakura, M. Wedel.

A comparison of multidimensional scaling methods for perceptual mapping, Journal of Marketing Research, 36 (May), 1999, 277-285, T.H.A. Bijmolt, M. Wedel.

Visual attention to repeated print advertising:  a test of scanpath theory, Journal of Marketing Research, 36 (November) 1999, 424-438, F.G.M. Pieters, E. Rosbergen, M. Wedel.

A cross-national investigation into the individual and national cultural antecedents of consumer innovativeness, Journal of Marketing, 63 (2) 1999, 55-69, J.B.E.M. Steenkamp, F. ter Hofstede, M. Wedel.

*International market segmentation based on consumer-product relations, Journal of Marketing Research, 36 (February), 1999, 1-17, F. ter Hofstede, J.B.E.M. Steenkamp, M. Wedel (Lead Article).

*O'Dell Award

Utility Covariances and Context Effects in Conjoint MNP Models, Marketing Science, 17 (3), 1998, 236-252, M.E. Haaijer, M. Wedel, M. Vriens, T.J. Wansbeek.

Mixtures of (constrained) ultrametric trees. Psychometrika, 63 (4) 1998, 419-443 M. Wedel, W.S. DeSarbo.

 

Undirected visual attention to advertising, a segment level analysis, Journal of Consumer Research, 24 (3) 1997, 305-314, E. Rosbergen, F.G.M. Pieters, M. Wedel.

 

Statistical data-fusion for cross-tabulation. Journal of Marketing Research, 34 (November) 485-498, 1997, W.A. Kamakura, M. Wedel.

 

Segmentation methods for metric conjoint analysis:  A Monte Carlo comparison, Journal of Marketing Research, 33 (February), 1996, 73-85, M. Vriens, M. Wedel, T. Wilms.

 

Implications for asymmetry , non-proportionality and heterogeneity in brand switching from piece-wise exponential mixture hazard models, Journal of Marketing Research, 32, (November)1995, 457-462.  M. Wedel, W.A. Kamakura, W.S. DeSarbo, E.W. ter Hofstede.

 

Life-style segmentation with tailored interviewing, Journal of Marketing Research, 32, (August), 1995, 308-317, W.A. Kamadura, M. Wedel.

 

A clusterwise regression method for simultaneous fuzzy market structuring and benefit segmentation.  Journal of Marketing Research, 28 (November), 1991, 385-397.  M. Wedel, J.E.B.M. Steenkamp (Lead article).

 


Editorships

  • Area Editor, Journal of Marketing Research

  • Area Editor, Marketing Science 

  • Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Classification, Journal of Marketing and Quantitative Marketing and Economics