【主讲】Xie Huan (Concordia University)
【主题】An Experiment on Persuasion Bias in Science
【时间】2017年6月26日 (周一) 15：00-16：30
【地点】上海财经大学经济学院楼402室
【语言】英文
【摘要】We design an experiment to test a game theoretical model in which a Researcher who conducts randomized controlled experiments has conflicts of interest from the Evaluator of his research, such as funding agency or referees. The Researcher aims at persuading the Evaluator that the causal effect of a treatment outweighs its cost in order to justify acceptance of the treatment. The Researcher may have private information on the treatment effect of some subjects and manipulatively sample subjects based on the private information. Our main treatments vary in whether or not the Researcher possesses the private information and the possibility to manipulate sample selection. We compare the welfare of both the Researcher and Evaluator between the cases with and without the possibility for the Researcher to manipulate.
