We study joint marketing arrangements by competing firms who engage in price discrimination between consumers who patronize only one firm (single purchasing) and those who purchase from both competitors (bundle purchasers). Two types of joint marketing are considered. Firms either commit to a...

We study price discrimination where different prices are offered as a bundle with different levels of information about a product. The seller’s price discrimination induces high valuation buyers to purchase a good without information and low valuation buyers to purchase with information. Our...

According to conventional wisdom, if a monopolist operates in two separate markets whose respective demand functions can be ordered by elasticity, he will charge more on the market with the less elastic demand. In this paper we debunk the widespread canard that this follows from the first order...