Firms have traditionally used price and advertising to signal product quality when consumers are not initially well-informed about qualities of competing sellers. While the Internet has increased the frequency at which buyers face unknown sellers, it also provides abundant information about...

There are several ways that firms collaborate while also competing. One firm provides a crucial capability or ingredient to another which sells a competing end-market product. For instance, LG sells smartphones and supplies OLED displays for Google’s smartphones. Like it happens here, the...

This paper studies product bundling in a distribution channel where a downstream retailer combines component goods produced by separate manufacturers acting independently. Past literature offers deep insights about bundling by a single firm whose unit costs are not impacted by choice of selling...