Communication, Learning, and Bargaining Breakdown: An Empirical Analysis

The authors are grateful to numerous seminar and conference participants, as well as to Charles Angelucci, Anne Bartel, Wouter Dessein, Liran Einav, Guillaume Fréchette, Guillaume Haeringer, Alessandro Lizzeri, Bentley Macleod, Leslie Marx, Sarah Moshary, Michaela Pagel, Andrea Prat, Andrzej Skrzypacz, Yossi Feinberg, their anonymous reviewers, and a program committee member for ACM:EC 2021 and especially Jonah Rockoff for thoughtful comments, as well as many eBay employees for their input and support, and finally Brenden Eum and Alphonse Simon for excellent research assistance; all remaining errors are the authors’ own. Part of this research was conducted while Matthew Backus, Thomas Blake, and Steven Tadelis were affiliated with eBay Research Labs.