Mixed bundling in imperfectly competitive industries causes some prices to rise and others to fall. This paper studies … under what conditions mixed bundling works for or against the consumer interest. We find that if buyers incur firm specific … costs or have shop specific tastes then competitive mixed bundling lowers consumer surplus overall and raises profits - the …

We study the static and dynamic implications of non-linear pricing schemes (i.e., bundling) for otherwise unrelated … products but for multimarket contact. Bundling is always present in competition but unlikely in a cartel agreement. Although it … brings extra profits to the cartel –sometimes charging a premium rather than a discount for the bundle–, bundling makes …

the case when bundling contracts are feasible). We show that the unbundling of contracts also leads to downward distorted …

This paper extends the standard model of bundling to allow products to be substitutes and for products to be supplied … by separate sellers.  Whether integrated or separate, firms have an incentive to introduce a bundling discount when …

The paper offers an overview of the literature on bundling in the telecommunications sector and its application in the … Spanish market. We argue that the use of bundling in the provision of services is associated to technological reasons …. Therefore, there appears no need to regulate bundling activities. However, this is not to say that other related telecom markets …

The paper offers an overview of the literature on bundling in the telecommunications sector and its application in the … Spanish market. We argue that the use of bundling in the provision of services is associated to technological reasons …. Therefore, there appears no need to regulate bundling activities. However, this is not to say that other related telecom markets …