题目：Cheating in the Lab Predicts Fraud in the Field: An Experiment in Public Transportations

时间：2016年9月28日 星期三     12:00 – 13:30

地点：明德主楼610

报告人：代志新

摘要：We conduct an artefactual field experiment using a diversified sample of passengers of public transportations to study attitudes towards dishonesty. We find that the diversity of behavior in terms of dis/honesty in laboratory tasks and in the field correlate. Moreover, individuals who have just been fined in the field behave more honestly in the lab than the other fare-dodgers, except when context is introduced. Overall, we show that simple tests of dishonesty in the lab can predict moral firmness in life, although fraudsters who care about social image cheat less when behavior can be verified ex post by the experimenter.

报告人简介：Prof. DAI Zhixin is assistant professor in economics at the Renmin University of China and he is affiliated with the GATE (Groupe d’Analyse et de Théorie Economique) research institute, CNRS, France. He obtained his PhD in economics from the University of Lyon, France. His main research interests lie in the fields of public economics, experimental/behavioral economics, as well as law and economics and behavioral finance. His current main research topics are about audit policies as well as cheating behavior in the lab and in the field. He has published in many decent international journals including European Economic Review, Management Science, and Theory and Decision.