Conjugate information disclosure in an auction with learning
Arina Nikandrova and
Romans Pancs
Journal of Economic Theory, 2017, vol. 171, issue C, 174-212
Abstract:
We consider a single-item, independent private value auction environment with two bidders: a leader, who knows his valuation, and a follower, who privately chooses how much to learn about his valuation. We show that, under some conditions, an ex-post efficient revenue-maximizing auction—which solicits bids sequentially—partially discloses the leader's bid to the follower, to influence his learning. The disclosure rule that emerges is novel; it may reveal to the follower only a pair of bids to which the leader's actual bid belongs. The identified disclosure rule, relative to the first-best, induces the follower to learn less when the leader's valuation is low and more when the leader's valuation is high.
Keywords: Information disclosure; Conjugate disclosure; Bayesian persuasion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D82 D83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2017.06.006
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