Dynamic Signaling with Dropout Risk
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
vol. 8,
no. 1, February 2016
(pp. 57-82)
Abstract
We study the role of dropout risk in dynamic signaling. A seller privately knows the quality of an indivisible good and decides when to trade. In each period, he may draw a dropout shock that forces him to trade immediately. To avoid costly delay, the seller with a low-quality good voluntarily pools with early dropouts, implying that the expected quality of the good increases over time. We characterize the time-varying equilibrium trading dynamics. It is demonstrated that the maximum equilibrium delay of trade is decreasing in the initial belief that the good is of high quality. (JEL C73, D82, D83)Citation
Dilmé, Francesc, and Fei Li. 2016. "Dynamic Signaling with Dropout Risk." American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 8 (1): 57-82. DOI: 10.1257/mic.20120112Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- C73 Stochastic and Dynamic Games; Evolutionary Games; Repeated Games
- D82 Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- D83 Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
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