Dynamic Persuasion and Strategic Search

This paper is based on Chapter 1 of the author’s doctoral dissertation. The author thanks J. Miguel Villas-Boas, Ganesh Iyer, and Yuichiro Kamada for continual guidance and support; the department editor, Dmitri Kuksov, associate editor, and four anonymous reviewers for constructive comments and suggestions that significantly improve the paper; and Fred Feinberg, Liang Guo, Sherry He, Kinshuk Jerath, Shachar Kariv, T. Tony Ke, Ryota Lijima, Olivia Natan, Ram Rao, Qitian Ren, Chris Shannon, Jingbo Wang, Dong Wei, Birger Wernerfelt, Pinar Yildirim, Zachary Zhong, Zihao Zhou, Yuting Zhu, and seminar participants at Berkeley Haas, Berkeley Econ theory lunch, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, ISMS Marketing Science Conference 2023, Nova School of Business and Economics, Peking University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Melbourne, University of Rochester, and University of Texas at Dallas for valuable comments. All errors are my own.