♦ 主讲人
Chew Soo Hong(周恕泓), 新加坡国立大学讲席教授
♦ 参与老师
(经院)刘怡、张鹏飞、刘冲、郝煜,(国发院)张晓波、李力行、席天扬、徐化愚、于航
♦ 题目
决策错误与关联推理(Decision Error and Contingent Reasoning)
♦ 时间
♦ 地点
朗润园512教室
报告摘要
This talk is motivated by some classic decision-making puzzles each pointing to some form of choice error which may be attributable to a failure in contingent reasoning. Besides the Allais’ (1953) common-consequence problem and Ellsberg’s (1961) three-color problem, we will discuss the Monty Hall problem, the failure of the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak mechanism as discussed in Cason-Plott (2014), and the acquiring-a-company problem (Samuelson-Bazerman,1985) which relates to Akerlof’s (1970) lemons problem and the winner’s curse in common value auctions (Capen, Clapp, and Campbell, 1971; Charness and Levin, 2009). We offer a definition of contingent reasoning which relies on aggregating the contingency-induced choices arising from hypothetical knowledge. This helps shape the design of experiments by adopting a treatment which exposes the decision maker to hypothetical knowledge relating to the situation at hand before making the actual incentivized choices. Results from preliminary studies indicate that our hypothetical knowledge treatment is effective in enhancing the quality of decision making by reducing the incidence of failure in contingent reasoning ex ante. It appears that a hypothetical-knowledge based enhancement of decision making may be applicable to a wide range of settings especially where education and training are involved.
主讲人简介
周恕泓(Chew Soo Hong),新加坡国立大学讲席教授,世界计量经济学会院士(Fellow)。周恕弘教授是世界著名的实验经济学家和行为经济学家,曾执教于美国亚利桑那大学、约翰·霍普金斯大学、加州大学尔湾分校、香港科技大学(担任讲座教授)。在Econometrica、Journal of Economic Theory等世界顶级学术期刊上发表十多篇论文,2011年,他当选为世界计量经济学会(Econometric Society)院士(Fellow)。
北京大学经济学院工作坊简介
2018年10月,北京大学经济学院、国家发展研究院和新结构经济学研究院达成框架合作协议,约定采用轮流主持的方式共同举办工作坊,正式建立了科研领域的交流创新合作机制。2019年,根据协议,先后成立了七个工作坊:政治经济学工作坊;国际经济学与实证产业组织工作坊;宏观经济学工作坊;微观理论经济学工作坊;计量经济学和大数据分析工作坊;劳动-健康经济学工作坊和发展与公共财政工作坊。2019年七个工作坊共计举办127场活动,这些活动为广大师生提供了良好的国内外一流学术交流平台,促进了学院之间的学术资源整合和人才培养,提升了广大师生和经济学领域的研究水平。
供稿单位 | 经济学院科研办公室
供稿人 | 刘冲
美编 | 山竹
责编 | 量子、禾雨、予天