题目：Can Tournaments Induce Workaholic Behaviors? Theory and Experimental Evidence

时间：2021年4月8日（周四）下午4:00-5:30 (讲座时间由原来的3:00开始更改为4:00开始）

地点：大学城校区文2栋301

主讲人：张延人博士

主持人：董志强教授

主讲人简介：

    张延人博士为复旦发展研究院(FDDI)助理研究员。他在英国阿伯丁大学(University of Aberdeen)国王学院获经济学博士学位。他在加入复旦发展研究院之前曾在复旦大学经济学院从事博士后研究，并受挪威科技部资助在挪威经济学院(NHH)和卑尔根大学(University of Bergen)从事访问研究。他的主要研究领域为合约理论的应用，创新与企业家行为以及区域经济学。

摘要：

    We attempt to determine if tournaments create an intrinsic desire of agents to work long and hard even after all prizes are paid out by developing a theory of workaholic behavior. We base this theory on a model for asymmetric belief updating. In this model, agents infer their productivity from their performance rank in a tournament. To maximize their psychic incomes, the agents likely attribute their performance rank to their productivity if they win and to luck if they lose. Possessing this self-serving belief, everyone overworks in a subsequent piece-rate stage. We conduct an experimental test to pinpoint the role of tournament in shaping the bias. Our data strongly support our hypothesis that revealing performance rank to subjects induces workaholism.