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Title: Selling with Evidence

Author(s): Frédéric Koessler and Vasiliki Skreta

Publication Date: May 2017

Keyword(s): certification, consumer heterogeneity, Informed principal, interdependent valuations, mechanism design and product information disclosure

Programme Area(s): Industrial Organization

Abstract: We study how to optimally sell a good in a bilateral asymmetric information monopoly setting with interdependent values when the informed seller can voluntarily and costlessly provide evidence about the good's characteristics. Equilibrium allocations are feasible and immune to deviations to any mechanism. We show that there is an ex-ante profit-maximizing selling procedure that is an equilibrium of the mechanism-proposal game. In contrast to posted price settings, information unravelling of product characteristics may fail even when all buyer types agree on the ranking of product quality.

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Koessler, F and Skreta, V. 2017. 'Selling with Evidence'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=12049