Working Paper

Informed-Principal Problem in Mechanisms with Limited Commitment

Suehyun Kwon
CESifo, Munich, 2019

CESifo Working Paper No. 7513

This paper studies mechanism design with limited commitment where agents have correlated persistent types over the infinite horizon. The mechanism designer now faces the informed-principal problem in addition to usual issues with i.i.d. types. The paper first shows revelation principle in this context then shows sufficient conditions for obtaining full-commitment solutions with limited commitment.

CESifo Category
Industrial Organisation
Empirical and Theoretical Methods