现代产业经济学系列讲座第186期

行为经济与金融研究室系列讲座
 

时 间:2019年11月20日(周三)15:00-16:30

地 点:复旦大学管理学院史带楼604室

主 题:A Gift with Thoughtfulness: A Field Experiment on Work Incentives主讲人: 刘潇 清华大学经管学院经济系 副教授

 

主持人: 李玲芳 复旦大学管理学院产业经济学系 副教授

摘 要:We conduct a field experiment to investigate whether and how different forms of monetary gifts influence workers' performance in the workplace. Undergraduate students are hired for a temporary research assistant job at a Chinese university. At the end of the pre-announced task, they are surprised with a monetary gift and decide whether to help with some additional work under a less appealing pay scheme. We find that a more thoughtful presentation of the gift cash enclosed in a red envelope, in general, outperforms cash only by increasing workers' overall performance and willingness to help and to trade off a high quality of work for quantity. Workers are more likely to perceive the thoughtful gift as the employer's appreciation, which counteracts the negative income effect due to reference dependence.

主讲人简介:刘潇,清华大学经管学院经济系副教授。于2006年获得中国人民大学学士学位,2012年获得密歇根大学博士学位。主要研究兴趣包括:实验和行为经济学,市场设计和博弈论,论文发表在Management Science, Games and Economic Behavior,Experimental Economics, International Journal of Game Theory等杂志。
 

产业经济学系 

2019-11-11