经济学院2018年第四十次学术讲座

主讲人：邢亦青助理教授

单 位：约翰·霍普金斯大学凯瑞商学院助理教授

题 目：The Interaction of Communities, Religion, Governments, and Corruption in the Enforcement of Contracts and Social Norms

时 间：2018年6月15日（周五）上午10：00

地 点：经济学院402会议室

摘 要：Are informal communities and formal government policing substitutes or complements in enforcing norms of reciprocation and exchange? How do religion and corruption affect that interaction? We introduce a model in which people exchange informally within their community as well as externally on a market in which transactions are policed. We show that informal community enforcement and formal policing are complements: the news that someone was caught by the police can lead to community ostracism, bolstering incentives. Although community transactions offer less direct benefits, their presence lowers overall costs of enforcement and it may be welfare-maximizing for a society to rely on both community and formal exchange. We explain why the optimal mix of community and formal markets is discontinuous in underlying parameters. We also show that religion can enhance the complementarity between community and formal policing, while corruption undermines it.

作者简介：邢亦青，约翰·霍普金斯大学凯瑞商学院助理教授。2016年于斯坦福大学获经济学博士学位，2010、2007年于北京大学分别获经济学硕士、数学学士和经济学学士学位。研究方向包括经济和社会网络、微观经济理论、博弈论、社会经济学等。为AER, QJE, Econometrica, TE, JPubE, IER, JASA等期刊的匿名审稿人。曾在PNAS, Review of Economic Design, Economics Letters,经济研究等国内外期刊发表论文。

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