2024年4月23日（周二）13:30-15:00 Jun Zhang （澳大利亚悉尼科技大学）

讲座系列：产业组织理论与政策第19场（学科发展系列讲座总期第54场）

讲座人：Jun Zhang  （澳大利亚悉尼科技大学副教授）

时间：2024年4月23日（周二）13:30-15:00

地点：博学楼1222

主持人：曹小勇（对外经贸大学中国金融学院党委书记、教授）

讲座题目：Tournaments with and without Private Information: A Nonparametric Approach

讲座摘要：We establish nonparametric identification and estimation of the distribution of random shocks for two tournament models with and without private information. We then ap ply the proposed estimation procedure to analyze a broiler production tournament data set. Our estimation results show that the model without private information fits the data much better than the one with. We also use the structural model estimates to quantify the welfare effects of the tournament prize structure on principal’s profit and social welfare. Our results show that switching from the observed prize structure to an optimal one would lead to a large gain in the principal’s profit but only a modest gain in social welfare, while that based on the poorly fit model predicts a misleading result.

主讲人简介：

Jun Zhang is an Associate Professor at University of Technology Sydney （UTS） and Australian Research Council Research Fellow （DECRA）.  Before joining UTS, he was an Associate Professor at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. He received his PhD in Economics from Queen’s University, Canada. His research interests are in economic theory, industrial organization and operation management. His publications appear in Journal of Economic Theory, Economic Journal, Games and Economic Behavior, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Economics, etc.

讲座人主页：

http://zhangjun.weebly.com/