【主讲】Dino Gerardi (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
【主题】The Role of Commitment in Bilateral Trade
【时间】2012年5月8日（周二） 15：30－17：00
【地点】上海财经大学经济学院楼701室
【语言】 英文
【摘要】This paper solves for the set of equilibrium payoffs in bargaining with interdependent values when the informed party makes all offers, as discounting vanishes. The seller of a good is informed of its quality, which affects both his cost and the buyer's valuation, but the buyer is not. To characterize this payoff set, we derive an upper bound, using mechanism design with limited commitment. We then prove that this upper bound is tight, by showing that all its extreme points are equilibrium payoffs. Our results shed light on the role of different forms of commitment on the bargaining process. In particular, we show that it is the buyer's inability to commit to a contract before observing the terms of trade that precludes efficiency.
