2024年5月9日（周四）13:30-15:00 高步渠 （湖南大学）

讲座系列：产业组织理论与政策第22场（学科发展系列讲座总期第58场）

讲座人：高步渠（湖南大学经济与贸易学院助理教授）

时间：2024年5月9日（周四）13:30-15:00

地点：博学楼1222

主持人：赵昕（对外经贸大学国际经济贸易学院经济学系讲师）

讲座题目：Optimal Interim Deadlines for Time-Inconsistent Agents

讲座摘要：In many real-life situations, people need to complete a divisible task over a fixed time horizon. There are two prominent features in task management. First, people are subject to productivity shocks, which requires flexibility in intertemporal workload allocation. Second, people are prone to procrastination and demand commitment devices. In a principal-agent setting, we study the optimal design of interim deadlines that trade off the demand for flexibility and commitment. We show that the profit-maximizing contract may entail fewer interim deadlines for the time-inconsistent agent than for the time-consistent agent. Moreover, relative to the welfare-maximizing contract, the profit-maximizing contract may give more autonomy to the agent.

主讲人简介：

高步渠，湖南大学经济与贸易学院助理教授，博士毕业于波士顿大学经济学专业，研究方向为产业组织、行为经济学、应用微观理论。研究成果已发表于Management Science，主持两项省部级科研项目。

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