Seminar

Past

Dynamic Screening: Why Weight isn’t Volume

Anna Sanktjohanser

  • Date16 November 2023
  • Time 11h15 - 12h00
  • Room Auditorium 3

Abstract

We consider a continuous-time game between a buyer and a seller. The buyer privately knows how often he needs to trade. When he does, he can choose to either engage with the seller, who chooses what utility to supply, or search for an alternative. Because time is informative, the seller learns and adjusts her behavior over time. Without commitment, in the Markov perfect equilibrium, the seller starts with a pooling offer, before experimenting with occasional separating offers. Her payoff is non-monotone –in fact, quasi-convex– in her belief about the buyer’s type. With commitment, the seller can take advantage of limited-time offers to extract all the buyer’s surplus.

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