Dynamic screening with liquidity constraints
研究了一个动态甄别模型，其中代理人面临短期流动性约束，且违约可验证，发现更弱的约束不影响最优合同，并提出了连续类型下私人价值设置的新方法。
Abstract We consider a dynamic screening model with serially independent types where the agent is short-term liquidity constrained. We model a liquidity constraint as a hard constraint that forces the agent to renege whenever he would suffer a loss from fulfilling the contract terms in a given period. In particular, the violation of a liquidity constraint is a verifiable event that future contract terms can condition on. This verifiability leads to less stringent truth-telling constraints than those considered in the existing literature. We show that the weaker constraints do not affect optimal contracting, however. Moreover, we develop a novel method to study private values settings with continuous types and show that a regularity condition that has analogues in the literature on multi-dimensional screening ensures that the optimal contract is deterministic.