This paper shows how we might successfully introduce students in principles and intermediate microeconomic theory classes to the topic of bundling, i.e., the selling of two or more goods as a package, rather than separately. It is surprising how much students can learn using only the tools of highschool geometry. Specifically, one can prove that with independently distributed reservation prices...

Unlicensed spectrum has been viewed as a way to increase competition in wireless access and promote innovation in new technologies and business models. However, several recent papers have shown that the openness of such spectrum can also lead to it becoming over congested when used by competing wireless service providers (SPs). This in turn can result in the SPs making no profit and may deter t...

It was in a greenhouse in Oakland, California in 1989 that I began to question what I thought I knew about the use of transgenes in agriculture. I had been urged to look at some transgenic petunia plants by a company to which I was a scientific advisor. The plants in front of me had deep purple petals with many white segments. Some of the plants had all-white flowers. The white segments and the...

A cDNA for fascin, an actin-bundling protein in echinoderms, has been cloned, sequenced, and expressed. The predicted mass of the protein is approximately 55 kDa, similar to that observed for fascin purified from sea urchin eggs. Bacterially expressed fascin reacts with antibodies prepared against sea urchin egg fascin. Fascin has a strong sequence similarity to the singed gene (sn) product in ...

We prove that when the number of (potential) buyers is at least three, every ex post equilibrium in the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves combinatorial auction mechanisms is a bundling equilibrium and is symmetric. This complements a theorem proved in Holzman, Kfir-Dahav, Monderer, and Tennenholtz [6], according to which, the symmetric bundling equilibria are precisely those defined by a quasi field.

Bundling of graph edges (node-to-node connections) is a common technique to enhance visibility of overall trends in the edge structure of a large graph layout, and a large variety of bundling algorithms have been proposed. However, with strong bundling, it becomes hard to identify origins and destinations of individual edges. We propose a solution: we optimize edge coloring to differentiate bun...

Digitalization of information goods substantially affects firms’ incentives to pursue bundling and other contractual arrangements, making bundling an important current policy issue. Realistic analyses of the use and implications of bundling require detailed data on both supply arrangements and consumer demand, including substitution between products. We analyze bundling in the video-rental indu...

Autocratic regimes, democratic majorities, private platforms, and religious or professional organizations can achieve social control by managing the flow of information about individuals’ behavior. Bundling agents’ political, organizational, attitudes with their prosocial conduct makes them care behaviors that they otherwise would not. The incorporation graph in score further promotes soft but ...

Parties in financial markets, industries, compensation design or politics may negotiate on either a piecemeal or a bundled basis. Little is known about the desirability of bundling when values are common and/or information endogenous. The paper shows that bundling encourages information-equalizing investments, thereby facilitating trade. It accordingly revisits and qualifies existing knowledge ...

Introduction The distinction between advertising and content may sometimes seem to be blurred on the Net. Consider, for example, the majority of company Web sites, which provide information about the companies and their products and services. From the point of view of their customers and investors, the company and product information is “content”, while from the companies’ perspective, it is “a...