[組織經濟學Seminar]Information Acquisition in Heterogeneous Committees
發文時間:2015-06-08
中國人民大學企業與組織研究中心 組織經濟學Seminar
總第59期 【OE201506】

      組織經濟學(Organizational Economics)Seminar由中國人民大學企業與組織研究中心(CFOS)主辦。CFOS的宗旨是,利用現代經濟學方法研究中國的企業、政府、市場和非營利組織的重大問題,推動企業理論、契約理論和制度經濟學的研究與教學。關注CFOS,請訪問http://CFOS.ruc.edu.cn。


時間:2015年6月10日(周三)12:00-13:30
地點:明德主樓734會議室
主持:聶輝華(中國人民大學經濟學院教授)
主講:趙昕(加拿大多倫多大學經濟系)
主題:Information Acquisition in Heterogeneous Committees(異質性委員會中的信息獲取)
摘要:This paper studies the impacts of preference heterogeneity and voting rules on costly information acquisition in decision-making committees. I find that, in equilibrium, members` incentives to acquire information are monotonically related to their preferences. A more polarized committee can acquire more information in equilibrium, but unanimous voting rules do not necessarily induce the most information acquisition. However, if a committee designer can choose both the committee members and the voting rule, she will form a heterogeneous committee that adopts a unanimous rule. In this committee, one member moderately biased toward one decision serves as the decisive voter, and all other members have extreme preferences opposed to that of the decisive voter and serve mainly as information providers. The preference of the decisive member is not perfectly aligned with that of the designer. 


演講者簡介:趙昕,現為加拿大多倫多大學經濟系博士生。他曾先后就讀于對外經貿大學和英屬哥倫比亞大學(UBC)。他的研究領域是微觀經濟理論和政治經濟學,他目前已經在Journal of Regulatory Economics、Review of International Economics、Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting and Economics等國際知名期刊發表論文數篇。



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