For a period starting in 2015, Apple, Google, and Microsoft became the most valuable
companies in the world. Each was marked by an external developer ecosystem …

Digitization is disrupting a number of copyright-protected media industries, including books,
music, radio, television, and movies. Once information is transformed into digital form, it can …

A principal wishes to screen an agent along several dimensions of private information
simultaneously. The agent has quasilinear preferences that are additively separable across …

Maximizing the revenue from selling more than one good (or item) to a single buyer is a
notoriously difficult problem, in stark contrast to the one-good case. For two goods, we show …

Infomediaries such as online travel agencies (OTAs) and review aggregator websites are
profoundly changing the structure of the hospitality industry with consequences in the …

This paper proposes a framework for studying competitive (pure) bundling in an oligopoly
market. We find that under fairly general conditions, relative to separate sales, bundling …

Rather than organize as traditional firms, many of today's companies organize as platforms
that sit at the nexus of multiple exchange and production relationships. This chapter …

Product bundling is a marketing strategy that offers several products/items for sale as one
bundle. While the bundling strategy has been widely used, less efforts have been made to …

We consider a firm managing a category of vertically differentiated goods, that is, products
which differ with respect to an attribute for which all consumers prefer more to less. The …

In this paper, we model the potential for streaming music, a non-durable product, to upend
and displace durable music sales. As the popularity of streaming music increases producers …