We discuss strategic ways that sellers can use tying and bundling with requirement conditions to extract consumer … surplus. We analyze different types of tying and bundling creating (i) intra-product price discrimination; (ii) intra … may entail. We also discuss the impact on consumers and competition, as well as potential antitrust liability of bundling …

This paper presents a simple model of regulated/deregulated shopping hours and bundling in markets where consumers have … pricing regime when shopping hours are regulated, to a monopoly regime with bundling of products, when shopping hours are … increase the range of parameters over which bundling is a profitable strategy. Thus, the message of this paper is that …

limited slots. We study how bundling affects competition for slots. Under independent pricing, equilibrium often does not … exist and hence the outcome is often inefficient. When bundling is allowed, each seller has an incentive to bundle his … slotting contracts are prohibited. We also identify portfolio effects of bundling and analyze the consequences on horizontal …

This paper analyzes tying and bundling as an entry deterrence tool. It shows that a multi-product firm can defend its …

Theories of bundling have had great importance in European competition policy in recent merger control and abuse of … bundling cases can be structured. We first provide an overview of existing bundling theories, concentrating on robust economic … anticompetitive bundling. We show that a careful reading undermines recently proposed arguments for a (modified) per se legality rule …