11月6日经济系Seminar | Influence Activities and Bureaucratic Performance: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment in China

 

 

时间：2019年11月6日（星期三），14:00-15:30

地点：北京师范大学后主楼1610

报告人：何国俊（香港科技大学助理教授）

主持人：曹思未

报告题目：Influence Activities and Bureaucratic Performance: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment in China

 

Abstract：Subjective performance evaluation is widely used by firms and governments to provide work incentives. However, delegating evaluation power to senior leadership could induce influence activities: agents might devote much efforts to please their supervisors, rather than focusing on productive tasks that benefit their organizations. We conduct a large-scale randomized field experiment among Chinese local government employees and provide the first rigorous empirical evidence on the existence and implications of influence activities. We find that state employees are able to impose evaluator-specific influence to affect evaluation outcomes, and that this process could be partly observed by their co-workers. Furthermore, introducing uncertainty in the identity of the evaluator, which discourages evaluator-specific influence activities, can significantly improve the work performance of state employees.

 

 

报告人简介

何国俊，香港科技大学社会科学部、环境与可持续发展学部、经济学系助理教授，香港科技大学新兴市场研究院与公共政策研究院研究员，兼任芝加哥大学能源政策研究所中国中心研究主任。北京大学本科，加州大学伯克利分校博士，哈佛大学博士后。主要从事环境与发展经济学方面的研究。论文发表于《美国科学院院刊（PNAS）》、《美国经济评论（AER P&P）》、《美国经济学杂志-应用经济学（AEJ: Applied）》、《环境经济学与管理（JEEM）》、《英国医学期刊（BMJ）》等重要学术刊物。