Objective This project studies dynamic mechanisms. By “dynamic mechanisms”, we mean policies to which a principal (e.g. a seller, an employer, or a regulator) can commit to induce the agents (e.g. buyers, employees, or regulated firms) to take the desired actions over time. Several components of the project are envisaged: - Competition in dynamic mechanisms. o I propose a competitive setting in which agents (e.g. buyers or workers) learn about the offers of different principals over time. Agents may receive more than one offer at a time, leading to direct competition between mechanisms. Received offers are agents’ private information, permitting strategic delay of acceptance (for instance, an agent may want to wait to evaluate new offers that received in the future).- Robust predictions for a rich class of stochastic processes.o We study optimal dynamic mechanisms for agents whose preferences evolve stochastically with time. We develop an approach to partially characterizing these mechanisms which (unlike virtually all of the existing literature) does not depend on ad-hoc restrictions on the stochastic process for preferences.- Efficient bilateral trade with budget balance: dynamic arrival of traderso I study bilateral trade with budget balance, when traders (i) arrive over time, and (ii) have preferences which evolve stochastically with time. The project aims at an impossibility result in this setting: contrary to the existing literature which does not account for dynamic arrivals, budget-balanced efficient trade is typically impossible, even for very patient traders.- Pre-event ticket sales and complementary investmentso We provide a rationale for the early allocation of capacity to customers for events such as flights and concerts based on customers’ demand for pre-event complementary investments (such as booking a hotel or a babysitter). We examine efficient and profit-maximizing mechanisms. Fields of science social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssocial sciencessociologygovernancetaxation Programme(s) H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme Topic(s) ERC-2016-STG - ERC Starting Grant Call for proposal ERC-2016-STG See other projects for this call Funding Scheme ERC-STG - Starting Grant Coordinator UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX Net EU contribution € 520 270,82 Address Wivenhoe park CO4 3SQ Colchester United Kingdom See on map Region East of England Essex Essex Haven Gateway Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 Beneficiaries (3) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX United Kingdom Net EU contribution € 520 270,82 Address Wivenhoe park CO4 3SQ Colchester See on map Region East of England Essex Essex Haven Gateway Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 FONDATION JEAN JACQUES LAFFONT,TOULOUSE SCIENCES ECONOMIQUES Participation ended France Net EU contribution € 514 895,84 Address 5e etage, 1 esp de l'universite 31080 Toulouse See on map Region Occitanie Midi-Pyrénées Haute-Garonne Activity type Research Organisations Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 Third-party Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure. UNIVERSITE TOULOUSE 1 CAPITOLE Participation ended France Net EU contribution € 286 458,34 Address Rue du doyen gabriel marty 2 31042 Toulouse See on map Region Occitanie Midi-Pyrénées Haute-Garonne Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00
