Identification and Estimation of Multidimensional Screening

Gaurab Aryal () and Federico Zincenko

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Abstract: We study the identification and estimation of a multidimensional screening model in which a monopolist sells a product with multiple continuous attributes to consumers with private information about their multidimensional preferences. Optimal screening excludes ``low-type" consumers, bunches ``medium-type" consumers, and perfectly screens the ``high types." Assuming a quadratic, additively separable cost function, we identify sufficient conditions to recover the joint distribution of preferences and marginal costs from data on individual choices and payments in a single market. We propose estimators for these objects, establish their asymptotic properties, and assess their small-sample performance using Monte Carlo experiments. Finally, we illustrate our method using synthetic data on Chinese wireless service constructed using estimates from \cite{clx19}.

Date: 2014-11, Revised 2026-09
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