题目: “经济学系列讲座”第47期 Endogenous Information Acquisition and Norm Formation

主讲人：Marie Claire Villeval法国国家科学研究中心经济学教授，经济科学协会(ESA)主席、Management Science部门主编

时间：2022年7月6日下午4:00-6:00

线上：腾讯会议号：564-607-580

会议链接：https://meeting.tencent.com/dm/7MfchqzEebfs

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主持：张中祥 天津大学马寅初经济学院创院院长、卓越教授，国家能源、环境和产业经济研究院院长

报告简介

We investigate whether the ability of individuals to select their source of information affects the influence of social information on behavior and on empirical and normative beliefs in the ethical domain. In a large scale (N=1945) online lying game, we vary across treatments whether individuals can access empirical or normative information from others, and the presence of group identity in terms of political affiliation.

We show that information search is motivated self-servingly, as a majority of individuals manage to consume more lenient information. This bias depends on whether own party is or not the source of lenient information. Selecting a more lenient source of normative information increases the willingness to lie, while empirical information influences empirical beliefs but much less behavior. Normative beliefs are influenced neither by empirical or normative information. A follow-up experiment (N=2414) reveals that assigning the source of information exogenously weakens the influence of social information, with little effect of polarization.

Key words: Social Norms, Information Acquisition, Peer Effects, Group Identity, Dishonesty


报告人简介



Marie Claire Villeval is Research Professor in economics at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and she is affiliated with the GATE (Groupe d’Analyse et de Théorie Economique) research institute, at the University of Lyon, France. She had been the director of GATE from 2007 to 2016 and she is now the director of GATE-LAB. She is President of the Economic Science Association (ESA). She was the President of the French Economic Association (AFSE) and the Founding President of the French Association of Experimental Economics (ASFEE). She has been a member of the executive committee of the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) and she is now a member of the French Group of Experts on Minimum Wage.


She is the Advisory Editor of Experimental Economics, Honorary Editor of Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, and Department Editor of Management Science (Behavioral Economics and Decision), and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of the Economic Science Association, Review of Behavioral Economics, and Economic and Political Studies.



She was the co-editor in chief of Experimental Economics and she was member of the editorial boards of Journal of Neurosciences, Psychology and Economics. She was formerly co-editor of Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2014-2016) and she was on the boards of Management Science, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Australian Journal of Labour Economics.



She is Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour), the most prestigious distinction in France. She is also Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite (Knight of the National Order of Merit). She is a member of the Academia Europaea and Fellow of the European Association of Labour Economists. She has been awarded the Silver Medal of CNRS in 2017 and the Revue Economique Prize in 2018.