Bargaining with evolving private information

Juan Ortner

Theoretical Economics, 2023, vol. 18, issue 3

Abstract: I study how the arrival of new private information affects bargaining outcomes. A seller makes offers to a buyer. The buyer is privately informed about her valuation, and the seller privately observes her stochastically changing cost of delivering the good. Prices fall gradually at the early stages of negotiations, and trade is inefficiently delayed. The first-best is implementable via a mechanism, whereas all equilibrium outcomes of the bargaining game are inefficient.

Keywords: Bargaining; inefficient delay; Coase conjecture; evolving private information; two-sided private information (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C73 C78 D42 D82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-07-20
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