学术交流信息如下：

主讲人一：陈茁

题目： Effort as Attention: Persuading an Information-Averse Agent to Work

摘要：Workers with information aversion are particularly inclined to shirk due to the fear of the real-time feedback generated by the job tasks. This paper provides a principal-agent model to characterize the “effort-as-attention” effect, and studies how a principal can motivate an information-averse worker to exert effort through dynamic Bayesian persuasion. In a two-period effort provision problem, whether the agent can complete her task is related to her two choices about whether to exert effort, her own ability and the difficulty of the task. The agent knows neither her ability nor the difficulty of the task, with the former only observable by her choice to work, and the latter only knowable by the communication from the principal. I fully characterize the optimal dynamic information disclosure policy. This policy has three features in contrast to the “information as carrot” policy identified by Ely and Szydlowski (2020). First, because the agent dislikes information, the principal uses information as a stick to punish the shirking in the first period. Second, in contrast, if the agent works in the first period, the principal hides some information to enhance the utility of the information-averse agent, thereby incentivizing the agent to exert effort in the first period. Third, prior to the two-period effort choice, the principal can dispel procrastination-inducing beliefs by information disclosure. Some further extensions are also investigated.

主讲人二：李爱军

题目：中国碳中和发展绩效及其内在驱动力研究

摘要：针对气候变化和全球变暖问题，党和国家提出了参与和推进全球生态文明建设的战略，明晰了碳达峰和碳中和的“双碳”目标，以成为全球生态文明建设的重要参与者。然而，2021年多个省份出现了“拉闸限电”现象，暴露出一些地方存在诸多认知短板和执行不力的问题。在此背景下，本研究对中国各个省份的碳中和发展绩效进行了定量评估；同时，区分技术进步因素和效率改进因素对碳中和发展绩效的影响，对引起技术传播障碍的内在驱动因素进一步展开分析。实证结果表明，中国碳中和发展绩效拥有较大的提升空间，并且区域、省际之间依然存在着较为明显的绩效差异；纯技术效率是实现碳达峰与碳中和目标的重要保障，可以很大程度上弥补一些省份在低碳资源上的禀赋劣势；此外，技术传播障碍的主要内在驱动因素在于西部区域的技术差异，因此，促进区域内部的技术传播和效率改进是提升碳中和发展绩效的有效手段。