[12月6日]微观经济学workshop

发布日期:2018-12-04 08:59    来源:北京大学国家发展研究院

微观经济学workshop:   Signaling versus Costly Information Acquisition

时间:2018年12月06日(周四)10:30-12:00  

地点:致福轩会议室

主讲人:李建培

题目:Signaling versus Costly Information Acquisition

  摘要: In Spence's (1973) signaling by education model and in many of its extensions, firms can only infer workers' productivities from their education choices. In reality, firms also use sophisticated pre--employment auditing to learn workers' productivities. We characterize the trade--offs between signaling by workers and costly information acquisition by firms. Information acquisition is always associated with (partial) pooling of worker types, and education is used as a signal only if relatively few workers have low  productivity. Our analysis applies also to other signaling problems, e.g. the financial structure of firms, warranties, and initial public offerings. 主讲人信息: 李建培,对外经济贸易大学国际经济贸易学院教授。主要研究领域为应用微观经济学,包括契约理论和产业组织理论。研究成果发表于RAND Journal of Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Economic Theory,International Journal of Industrial Organization等经济学国际期刊。曾主持国家自然科学基金青年项目、霍英东教育基金会项目、教育部新世纪优秀人才支持项目。荣获2018年中国信息经济学会乌家培奖。     If you want to be reminded each time before our workshop, please send an email to:  micro_workshop@vip.163.com。