To Bundle or Not to Bundle

14 Pages Posted: 7 Oct 2003

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Hanming Fang

University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Peter Norman

University of British Columbia - Department of Economics

Date Written: June 8, 2005

Abstract

Comparing monopoly bundling with separate sales is relatively straightforward in an environment with a large number of goods. In this paper we show that results that are similar to the asymptotic results can be obtained in the more realistic case with a given finite number of goods provided that the distributions of valuations are symmetric and log-concave.

Keywords: Monopolistic pricing, bundling, peakedness

JEL Classification: L11, L12

Suggested Citation

Fang, Hanming and Norman, Peter, To Bundle or Not to Bundle (June 8, 2005). Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1440; SSRI Working Paper No. 2003-18, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=445860

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