九州官方网站-九州（中国）科技有限公司官网经济学前沿高端讲座第五十一讲                

A Goose Feather from a Thousand Miles Away: A Theory and Experiment on Reciprocity    

主讲人：连暐虹教授（山东大学经济研究院）  

主持人：杨程助理教授（九州官方网站-九州（中国）科技有限公司官网李安民经济研究院）  

嘉宾介绍：何真瑜助理教授（九州官方网站-九州（中国）科技有限公司官网李安民经济研究院）  

时间：2024年5月22日（周三）  10：00-11：30（北京时间）  

地点：九州官方网站-九州（中国）科技有限公司官网崇山校区五洲园一楼会议室  

线上地址：腾讯会议：573-371-051  

语言：中文/英文  

摘要：Whether helping or reciprocating towards others, people occasionally take actions for which the underlying cost they incur exceeds the benefit actually obtained by the recipient. The degree to which such non-cost effective actions are appreciated by recipients, as compared to cost effective actions in which a recipient receives a relatively larger benefit at a lower cost, depends on whether helping actions are evaluated primarily based on the costs incurred or the benefits eventually obtained. We extend Falk and Fischbacher’s (2006) theory of reciprocity by incorporating both the costs and the consequences of a helping action in the evaluation of an individual’s kindness. We then conduct a laboratory experiment on an asymmetric version of the gift-exchange game to test the model, varying senders’ and receivers’ effectiveness in benefiting their counterparts at a single unit of their own cost. Our reduced form and structural estimation results support the findings that: (i) No matter whether during an initial interaction or when reciprocating others’ kindness, the costs incurred tend to be more highly valued by recipients as compared to the realized benefits obtained, which we refer to as “sincerity appreciating”; (ii) Receivers choose to incur lower costs when reciprocating towards a sender who knew about the possibility of receiving a favor in return, as compared to the situation that the opportunity to reciprocate arises as a surprise. Together, these findings suggest that the intentions behind helping weigh more heavily than merely the benefits obtained, in terms of a recipient’s valuation of the favor and desire to reciprocate.  

主讲人简介：   

Jaimie Wei-Hung Lien（连暐虹），山东大学经济研究院教授、博士生导师，山大特聘教授。美国卫尔斯利女子学院学士，美国加利福尼亚大学圣地亚哥分校硕士、博士。担任North American Journal of Economics and Finance等多份国际学术期刊客座编辑与编委成员，担任大陆、香港、台湾、新加坡等政府科研资助机构评审专家，担任多所高校教师晋升外审专家，担任31种期刊匿名评审人，多次获评杰出评审人。研究领域包括行为经济学、实验经济学、应用微观经济学，研究主题涉及合作互惠、参照依赖、现时偏误、代表性偏误等重要行为现象。先后主持过国家自然科学基金项目、教育部科研项目、香港研究资助局项目。目前已有论文发表于Nature Communications、PNAS、American Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings)、Games and Economic Behavior等国际知名期刊。曾获"中国信息经济学2016青年创新奖"、"中国信息经济学2018青年创新奖"和"中国信息经济学2011-2015理论贡献奖"。