STICERD Economic Theory Seminars
Keeping the Listener Engaged: a Dynamic Model of Bayesian Persuasion
Konrad Mierendorff (University College London), joint with Yeon-Koo Che and Kyungmin (Teddy) Kim
Thursday 05 December 2019 15:30 - 17:00
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About this event
We consider a dynamic model of Bayesian persuasion. Over time, a sender performs a series of experiments to persuade a receiver to take a desired action. Constraints on information flow force the sender's persuasion to take real time, and the receiver may walk away at any time without listening. In addition, persuasion is costly for both players. To incentivize the receiver to listen, the sender must leave rents that compensate his listening costs, but neither player can commit to her/his future actions. Persuasion may totally collapse in Markov perfect equilibrium (MPE) of this game. But, for persuasion cost sufficiently small, there is a folk theorem: outcomes that approximate Kamenica and Gentzkow (2011)'s optimal persuasion and full revelation, as well as anything in between are obtained in MPE, as the persuasion cost vanishes.
Economic Theory Seminars are held on Thursdays in term time at 15:30-17:00, both ONLINE and IN PERSON in SAL 3.05.
Seminar organisers: Dr Paula Ferreira Onuchic and Dr Christopher Sandmann.
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