The article investigates the Swedish retail banks’ application of price bundling in order to attract new customers, students. This is done through a customer survey about students’ preferences concerning retail banking services, their price sensitiveness and banking behaviour. The conjoint analysis results showed that the students had relatively heterogeneous preferences, and four distinguishin...

This paper studies the dynamics of agent mediated combinatorial trading at the macroscopic level. The combinatorial marketplace consists of a retailer who wishes to sell bundles of items, and a large number of agents with different purchasing goals. These agents dynamically form coalitions to exploit the benefits of grouping based on their complementary needs. A novel physics based dynamic equa...

I consider a dynamic model of bargaining where alternatives to the status quo arrive stochastically during process, proposer can bundle multiple into single proposal, and forward-looking voter elects agenda-setter. show that prevailing wisdom policy bundling reduces gridlock—by facilitating compromise across different areas—is incomplete. Policy also increase gridlock: player may veto or delay ...