Bundle-size pricing as an approximation to mixed bundling

American Economic Review

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 263-303

  Chu, Chenghuan Sean ^a   Leslie, Phillip ^b   Sorensen, Alan ^b  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952166859     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.101.1.263     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Adams, William James, and Janet L. Yellen. 1976. "Commodity Bundling and the Burden of Monopoly." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 90(3): 475-98.
2. Armstrong, Mark. 1999. "Price Discrimination by a Many-Product Firm." Review of Economic Studies, 66(1): 151-68.
3. Bakos, Yannis, and Erik Brynjolfsson. 1999. "Bundling Information Goods: Pricing, Profts, and Effciency." Management Science, 45(12): 1613-30.
4. Berry, Steven, James Levinsohn, and Ariel Pakes. 2004. "Differentiated Products Demand Systems from a Combination of Micro and Macro Data: The New Car Market." Journal of political Economy, 112(1): 68-105. (Pubitemid 38485516)
5. Byzalov, Dmitri. 2008. "Unbundling Cable Television: An Empirical Investigation." http://www.gsb. stanford.edu/facseminars/events/marketing/ documents/mktg-09-09-byzalov.pdf.
6. Chu, Chenghuan Sean. 2008. "The Effect of Satellite Entry on Product Quality for Cable Television." Federal Reserve Board Divisions of Research & Statistics and Monetary Affairs Finance and Economics Discussion Paper 2008-12.
7. Crawford, Gregory S. 2008. "The Discriminatory Incentives to Bundle in the Cable Television Industry." Quantitative Marketing and Economics, 6(1): 41-78.
8. Crawford, Gregory S., and Joseph Cullen. 2007. "Bundling, Product Choice, and Effciency: Should Cable Television Networks Be Offered a La Carte" Information Economics and policy, 19(3-4): 379-404. (Pubitemid 47324071)
9. Crawford, Gregory S., and Ali Yurukoglu. 2009. "The Welfare Effects of Bundling in Multi-Channel Television Markets." http://www2.warwick.ac. uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/academic/crawford/research/bundlingpricing.pdf.
10. Dubé, Jean-Pierre. 2004. "Multiple Discreteness and Product Differentiation: Demand for Carbonated Soft Drinks." Marketing Science, 23(1): 66-81.
11. Fang, Hanming, and Peter Norman. 2006. "To Bundle or Not to Bundle." RANd Journal of Economics, 37(4): 946-63.
12. Geng, Xianjun, Maxwell B. Stinchcombe, and Andrew B. Whinston. 2005. "Bundling Information Goods of Decreasing Value." Management Science, 51(4): 662-67. (Pubitemid 41009660)
13. Gill, Philip E., Walter Murray, and Michael A. Saunders. 2002. "SNOPT: An SQP Algorithm for Large-Scale Constrained Optimization." Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Journal of Optimization, 12(4): 979-1006.
14. Hajivassiliou, Vassilis A., Daniel L. McFadden, and Paul Ruud. 1996. "Simulation of Multivariate Normal Rectangle Probabilities and Their Derivatives: Theoretical and Computational Results." Journal of Econometrics, 72(1-2): 85-134. (Pubitemid 126372867)
15. Hendel, Igal. 1999. "Estimating Multiple-Discrete Choice Models: An Application to Computerization Returns." Review of Economic Studies, 66(2): 423-46.
16. Ho, Justin, Katherine Ho, and Julie Holland Mortimer. 2008. "Welfare Effects of Full-Line Forc-ing Contracts in the Video Rental Industry." http://www.columbia.edu/kh2214/papers/hohomor-timer-121008.pdf.
17. Jedidi, Kamel, Sharan Jagpal, and Puneet Manchanda. 2003. "Measuring Heterogeneous Reservation Prices for Product Bundles." Marketing Science, 22(1): 107-30.
18. Leslie, Phillip. 2004. "Price Discrimination in Broadway Theater." RANd Journal of Economics, 35(3): 520-41.
19. Leslie, Phillip, and Alan Sorensen. 2009. "The Welfare Effects of Ticket Resale." http://www.stanford. edu/pleslie/resale.pdf.
20. Malueg, David A., and Christopher M. Snyder. 2006. "Bounding the Relative Proftability of Price Discrimination." International Journal of Industrial Organization, 24(5): 995-1011. (Pubitemid 44148851)
21. Manelli, Alejandro M., and Daniel R. Vincent. 2006. "Bundling as an Optimal Selling Mechanism for a Multiple-Good Monopolist." Journal of Economic Theory, 127(1): 1-35. (Pubitemid 43263627)
22. McAfee, R. Preston. 2002. "Coarse Matching." Econometrica, 70(5): 2025-34.
23. McAfee, R. Preston, John McMillan, and Michael D. Whinston. 1989. "Multiproduct Monopoly, Commodity Bundling, and Correlation of Values." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 104(2): 371-83.
24. McFadden, Daniel L. 1989. "A Method of Simulated Moments for Estimation of Discrete Response Models without Numerical Integration." Econometrica, 57(5): 995-1026.
25. Neeman, Zvika. 2003. "The Effectiveness of English Auctions." games and Economic Behavior, 43(2): 214-38.
26. Pakes, Ariel, and David Pollard. 1989. "Simulation and the Asymptotics of Optimization Estimators." Econometrica, 57(5): 1027-57.
27. Rogerson, William P. 2003. "Simple Menus of Contracts in Cost-Based Procurement and Regulation." American Economic Review, 93(3): 919-26.
28. Salinger, Michael A. 1995. "A Graphical Analysis of Bundling." The Journal of Business, 68(1): 85-98.
29. Schmalensee, Richard. 1984. "Gaussian Demand and Commodity Bundling." Journal of Business, 57(1): S211-30.
30. Shiller, Ben, and Joel Waldfogel. 2009. "Music for a Song: An Empirical Look at Uniform Song Pricing and Its Alternatives." http://bpp.wharton.upenn.edu/waldfogj/pdfs/Shiller-Waldfogel-submission.pdf.
31. Spence, A. Michael. 1980. "Multi-Product Quantity-Dependent Prices and Proftability Constraints." Review of Economic Studies, 47(5): 821-41.
32. Stigler, George J. 1963. "United States v. Loew's Inc.: A Note on Block-Booking." Supreme Court Review, 1963(1963): 152-57.
33. Venkatesh, R., and Vijay Mahajan. 1993. "A Probabilistic Approach to Pricing a Bundle of Products or Services." Journal of Marketing Research, 30(4): 494-508.
34. Wilson, Robert. 1993. Nonlinear pricing. New York: Oxford University Press.