【喜庆二十大・学术讲座】2023年6月15日（周四）下午13:30-15:00 陈波（美国南卫理公会大学）

讲座系列：前沿专题系列讲座第24场

讲座人：陈波（美国南卫理公会大学副教授）

时间：2023年6月15日（周四）13:30-15:00

地点：博学楼1222

主持人：赵畅（国际经济贸易学院经济学系讲师）

讲座题目：Everybody’s Talkin’ at Me: Levels of Majority Language Acquisition by Minority Language Speakers

讲座摘要：Immigrants in economies with a dominant native language exhibit substantial heterogeneities in language acquisition of the majority language. We model partial language acquisition as an equilibrium phenomenon. We consider an environment where heterogeneous agents from various minority groups choose whether to acquire a majority language fully, partially, or not at all, with varying communicative benefits and costs. We provide an equilibrium characterization of language acquisition and demonstrate that partial acquisition can arise as an equilibrium behavior. We also show that a language equilibrium may exhibit insufficient learning relative to the social optimum. In addition, we conduct a local stability analysis of steady state language equilibria. Finally, we discuss econometric implementation of the language acquisition model and establish econometric identification conditions.

讲座人简介：Bo Chen is currently Associate Professor and Director of Master’s Programs in Economics at Southern Methodist University. With a specialization in applied economic theory, his research encompasses areas such as dynamic games, contract theory, assignment games, and mechanism design. Presently he is actively involved in projects focused on dynamic contests, information disclosure, and economics of language.

讲座人主页：

https://people.smu.edu/bchen/