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The Better Half of Selling Separately

Computer Science and Game Theory 2022-09-23 v2 Theoretical Economics

Abstract

Separate selling of two independent goods is shown to yield at least 62% of the optimal revenue, and at least 73% when the goods satisfy the Myerson regularity condition. This improves the 50% result of Hart and Nisan (2017, originally circulated in 2012).

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@article{arxiv.1712.08973,
  title  = {The Better Half of Selling Separately},
  author = {Sergiu Hart and Philip J. Reny},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.08973},
  year   = {2022}
}