Dynamic Delegation with Reputation Feedback

Georgy Lukyanov () and Anna Vlasova

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Abstract: We study dynamic delegation with reputation feedback: a long-lived expert advises a sequence of implementers whose effort responds to current reputation, altering outcome informativeness and belief updates. We solve for a recursive, belief-based equilibrium and show that advice is a reputation-dependent cutoff in the expert's signal. A diagnosticity condition - failures at least as informative as successes - implies reputational conservatism: the cutoff (weakly) rises with reputation. Comparative statics are transparent: greater private precision or a higher good-state prior lowers the cutoff, whereas patience (value curvature) raises it. Reputation is a submartingale under competent types and a supermartingale under less competent types; we separate boundary hitting into learning (news generated infinitely often) versus no-news absorption. A success-contingent bonus implements any target experimentation rate with a plug-in calibration in a Gaussian benchmark. The framework yields testable predictions and a measurement map for surgery (operate vs. conservative care).

Date: 2025-08, Revised 2025-08
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