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Ralf van der LANS
Associate Professor
Email: rlans@ust.hk

PhD   Tilburg University
MSc  Erasmus University Rotterdam

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Associate Professor, Erasmus University (2009 - 10)
  • Assistant Professor, Erasmus University (2005 - 09)


 

RESEARCH INTERESTS: 

Bayesian data analysis; eye movements; retailing; spatial models; visual attention; online marketing.

PUBLICATIONS: 

Bayesian Estimation of the Multinomial Logit Model: A Comment on Holmes and Held, "Bayesian Auxiliary Variable Models for Binary and Multinomial Regression" Bayesian Analysis, 2011, 6(2), 353-356.

"Defining Eye-Fixation Sequences Across Individuals and Tasks: The
Binocular-Individual Threshold (BIT) Algorithm
," Behavior Research Methods, 2011, 43 (1), 239-257 (co-authored with Michel
Wedel and Rik Pieters). [Matlab code of BIT Algorithm]  

"A Viral Branching Model for Predicting the Spread of Electronic Word-of-Mouth," Marketing Science, 2010, 29 (2), 348-365 (co-authored with Gerrit van Bruggen, Jehoshua Eliashberg and Berend Wierenga).

"Viral Marketing: What is it and What are the Components of Viral Success?," in The Connected Customer, eds. Stefan Wuyts, Marnik G. Dekimpe, Els Gijsbrechts, and Rik Pieters, Routledge, New York, 257-282, 2010 (co-authored of Gerrit van Bruggen).

"Cross-National Logo Evaluation Analysis: An Individual-Level Approach," Marketing Science, 2009; 28 (5), 968-985 (co-authored with Joseph A. Cote, Catherine A. Cole, Siew Meng Leong, Ale Smidts, Pamela W. Henderson, Christian Bluemelhuber, Paul A. Bottomley, John R. Doyle, Alexander Fedorikhin, M. Janakiraman, B. Ramaseshan and Bernd H. Schmitt).

"Competitive Brand Salience," Marketing Science, 2008, 27 (5), 922-931 (co-authored with Rik Pieters and Michel Wedel).

Eye-Movement Analysis of Search Effectiveness, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2008, 103 (482), 452-461.

REVIEWING FOR:

International Journal of Research in Marketing (editorial board), Marketing Science (ad-hoc reviewer), International Journal of Research in Marketing (ad-hoc reviewer), International Journal of Advertising (ad-hoc reviewer), EMAC  (ad-hoc reviewer), Statistica Neerlandica (ad-hoc reviewer).