题目：Matching with Peer Monitoring

主讲人：陈斌

单位：中山大学管理学院

时间：2020年5月21日（周四）下午15：00-17:00

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摘要：Evidence for positive peer effects in production has been well-documented in empirical studies, and these effects are found to be more significant in teams composed of members with heterogeneous abilities. By modelling peer effect as mutual monitoring between members, we show that the total agency cost is minimized by maximizing skill diversities in the teams. This result provides a novel explanation for why worker heterogeneity can strengthen peer effects.Given any pool of agents, the optimal job and team design involve assigning agents with extreme abilities into teams using negative sorting, while leaving agents with intermediate abilities to work independently.

【主讲人简介】

陈斌，1982年生于湖南省衡阳市，2010年在香港大学取得经济学博士，随后在中山大学工作至今（期间在哥伦比亚大学访问一年）。研究方向为契约理论。近五年来已在Economic Journal，Management Science，Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization，Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics，Journal of Regional Science，China Economic Review等国际期刊以及《经济研究》等国内期刊发表文章十余篇。曾两次受邀赴每五年召开一次的Econometric Society World Congress报告独著论文。