Abstract
This paper considers a monopolist selling two objects to a single buyer with privately observed valuations. We prove that if each buyer’s type has a non-negative virtual valuation for each object, then the optimal price schedule is such that the objects are sold only in a bundle; weaker conditions suffice if valuations are independently and identically distributed. Under somewhat stronger conditions, pure bundling is the optimal sale mechanism among all individually rational and incentive compatible mechanisms.
Keywords
Monopoly Pricing; Price discrimination; Multi-dimensional mechanism design; Pure Bundling;
JEL codes
- D42: Monopoly
- D82: Asymmetric and Private Information • Mechanism Design
- L11: Production, Pricing, and Market Structure • Size Distribution of Firms
Replaces
Domenico Menicucci, Sjaak Hurkens, and Doh-Shin Jeon, “On the Optimality of Pure Bundling for a Monopolist”, July 7, 2014.
Replaced by
Domenico Menicucci, Sjaak Hurkens, and Doh-Shin Jeon, “On the Optimality of Pure Bundling for a Monopolist”, July 7, 2014.
Reference
Domenico Menicucci, Sjaak Hurkens, and Doh-Shin Jeon, “On the Optimality of Pure Bundling for a Monopolist”, July 7, 2014.
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July 7, 2014