主    题：Normative conflict and the limits of self-governance in heterogeneous populations
时    间：2017年3月30日（周四）上午9:00-10:30
地    点：后主楼1620室
主讲人：Professor Marie Claire Villeval
主持人：何浩然 北京师范大学经济与工商管理学院

摘    要：
Mechanisms to overcome social dilemmas provide incentives to maximize efficiency. However, often – such as when agents are heterogeneous – there is a trade-off between efficiency and equality – a normative conflict – which is overlooked. Agents’ concerns for equality in such instances can limit the ability of mechanisms to promote efficiency. We provide evidence for this from a public good experiment using a simple mechanism allowing individuals to communicate periodically with other group members and reward them for their actions. We show that, in homogeneous populations – where there is no conflict between efficiency and equality – the mechanism permits groups to obtain maximum efficiency. This is not the case in heterogeneous populations despite the fact that individuals could use rewards to overcome the normative conflict. Although almost all heterogeneous groups agree to follow specific contribution rules with positive contributions, most of them either prioritize equality over efficiency or strike a compromise between the two. These findings suggest normative conflict can be difficult to overcome, imposing limits on the ability of heterogeneous populations to reach efficient outcomes through self-governance.

主讲人简介：
        Marie Claire Villeval教授是欧洲科学院院士，法国国家科学院GATE经济研究中心前主任，特级教授，曾担任一系列学术机构职务，其中包括：法国经济学会前主席、法国实验经济学会创始主席、世界实验经济学会欧洲区主席、欧洲劳动经济学协会提名委员会主席、里昂商学院的学术委员会主席等。因其突出经济学贡献被法国政府授予骑士勋章。
        Villeval教授曾在Science、Nature 、American Economic Review、Management Science、Journal of Public Economics、Games and Economic Behavior、Journal of Labor Economics、Experimental Economics、European Economic Review、Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization等顶尖期刊上发表大量论文，曾经或目前担任包括Management Science、Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization、Experimental Economics、Journal of the Economic Science Association、Journal of Neurosciences、Psychology and Economics、Journal of Public Economic Theory、Australian Journal of Labour Economics等在内的多个国际学术期刊的主编副主编。