We analyze firms incentives to bundle and tie in the telecommunications industry. As a first step, we develop a discrete-choice demand model where firms sell products that may combine several services in bundles, and consumers choose assortments of different types of products available from...

Consumers often purchase more than one differentiated product, assembling a portfolio, which might potentially affect substitution patterns of demand and, as a consequence, oligopolistic firms' pricing strategies. This paper studies such consumers' portfolio considerations by developing a...

Mit der zunehmenden Fragmentierung der Automobilmärkte stellt sich die Frage, wie Kunden hybride Produkte, die auf zwei oder mehr bekannten Produktkategorien basieren, in ihre bestehende Wissensstruktur integrieren. Darüber hinaus ist interessant, welche Marketingmaßnahmen die kognitive...