主题｜Topic：Morality Meets Risk 道德遇到风险
时间｜Time：5月27日（周一）14: 30-16: 00
地点｜Venue：文澴楼711教室｜Class Room 711，WENHUAN
主办单位｜Organizer：美高梅mgm1888网站
承办单位｜Operator：北京大学-中南财经政法大学新结构经济学研究中心
主讲｜Speaker
郑家昆，法国艾克斯-马赛大学经济学助理教授，2020年获法国图卢兹经济学院经济学博士，曾任中国人民大学财政金融学院助理教授。研究领域为行为与实验经济学、决策理论、保险设计，研究成果发表在 Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Health Economics 等国际著名经济学期刊。
摘要｜Abstract
In this talk, I will cover three recent works, all related to the topic of how risk shapes prosocial behavior. In the first paper, we conducted a lab experiment with students, extending the existing work of Exley (2016) to the loss domain, exemplified by a myriad of negative externalities. We show that individuals tend to use risk as excuses in both gain and loss domains, but the extent of excuses varies widely and depends on several factors. We provide a self-signaling model to explain these results. In the second paper, we conducted an on-site field experiment of public good games with risk farmers in four developing countries. We show that economic models with pure risk preferences and impure altruism cannot fully explain our data. However, our empirical findings are consistent with the idea that people may exploit the notion of risk to safeguard their self-image while not cooperating. In the last paper, we conducted a lab experiment with students to understand whether individuals are able to predict others’ excuse-driven risk behavior. We find that they can. This enriches our understanding of how the existence of strategic behavior can complicate decision-making through the effects of risk on morality.
