Assortative Matching and Virtue Role Models: Theory, Experiment and Confucian Cultural Evidence
2014/05/13
研討會日期 : 2014-05-13
時間 : 14:30
主講人 : Professor Chun-Lei Yang
地點 : Conference Room C103
演講者簡介 : Professor Yang received his Ph.D. in Economics from University of Dortmund. He is currently a Research fellow at IResearch Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica. His research fields are Microeconomics, Game Theory, and Experiment.
演講摘要 : All cultures have different ways (material or spiritual, for individual or its family) to provide explicit rewards for 'discovered' virtue role models that fit the respective moral teaching of pro-social behavior. With Confucianism, we observe that such a moral system may be strongly based on utilization of the general assortative matching mechanism, without which the role-model promotion practice may not carry far to affect behavior of the opportunists. In an experimental study, we demonstrate that, first, AM is an effective mechanism to promote cooperation and, second, injection of exogenous virtue dummies may further significantly raise the level of cooperation in the population, consistent with theory predictions. This confirms the strong positive pro-social role of the practice of promoting virtue role models in human societies.
