微观理论workshop：Designing Heaven's Will: The Job Assignment in the Chinese Imperial Civil Service

主讲人: Inácio Bó"（Assistant Professor at the University of York )

主持老师: （经院）赵一泠 吴泽南 石凡奇；（国发院）胡岠

参与老师: （经院）郝煜 管汉辉 周建波；（国发院）汪浩 席天扬 于航；（光华）翁翕 颜色 刘烁

题目: Designing Heaven's Will: The Job Assignment in the Chinese Imperial Civil Service

时间：2021年9月22日（周三）12:00-13:30

地点：经济学院107

报告摘要：

We provide an original analysis of historical documents to describe the as signment procedures used to allocate entry-level civil service jobs in China from the tenth to the early twentieth century. The procedures tried to take different objectives into account through trial and error. By constructing a formal model that combines these procedures into a common framework, we compare their effectiveness in minimizing unfilled jobs and prioritizing high-level posts. We show that the problem was inherently complex such that changes made to improve the outcome could have the opposite effect. Based on a small modification of the last procedure used, we provide a new mechanism for producing maximum matchings under constraints in a transparent and public way.

主讲人简介：

Inácio received Ph.D in Economics from Boston College (USA) (2008-2014) , was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center (Germany) (2014-2019), Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the Department of Economics and Related Studies at the University of York (U.K.) (2019-2021) and is since April 2019 an Associate Professor at the China Center for Behavioral Economics and Finance - SWUFE.