Add to ORKGThis article explains the economics and antitrust of bundling. I first show that popular arguments such as demand complementarities, economies of scope, and price discrimination are not sufficient. I then detail potentially anticompetitive factors such as leverage and opacity. I then use simple examples to show how variation in consumer valuations explains bundling and is not anticompetitive. Finally, I explore other business judgment rule explanations for bundling
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This article asserts a comprehensive response to Elhauge’s provocative arguments. With respect to ty...
Antitrust, properly understood, plays a modest role in constraining commercial behavior. With respec...
This paper shows that for a price setting monopsony, offering to transact in a mixed bundle of goods...
The economic literature on bundling has made many theoretical advances. However, several omissions ...
This paper analyses the economic and legal aspects related to practices such as tying, bundling and ...
This paper investigates the strategic effect of bundling when a multi-product firm producing two com...
I analyze the implications of bundling on price competition in a market for complementary products. ...
This Essay studies bundling of two (or more) products as a strategic response to consumer mispercept...
Recent decisions-all relying on a stylized example first provided by the Ortho court-hold that a mul...
This paper proposes a model of competitive bundling with an arbitrary number of firms. In the regime...
Tying the sale of products that could be sold separately is common in competitive markets-from left ...
Commodity bundling is studied in an environment where the dispersion of valuations unambiguously dec...
We study how bundling affects competition between two asymmetric multi-product firms. One firm domin...
This paper provides an overview of bundling, by explaining, in general, the different forms that thi...
This paper examines the optimal bundling strategies of a multiproduct monopoly in markets in which a...
This article asserts a comprehensive response to Elhauge’s provocative arguments. With respect to ty...
Antitrust, properly understood, plays a modest role in constraining commercial behavior. With respec...
This paper shows that for a price setting monopsony, offering to transact in a mixed bundle of goods...