Osaka Workshop on Economics of Institutions and Organization (#146)

Date: Friday, July 15, 2022 13:30 to 15:00
Please contact 【 rmikami(a)iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp 】in advance, if you want to participate in the meeting.
(＊This seminar will be held as a Zoom Meeting.)

Presenter:
Takashi Shimizu (清水崇　神戸大学)

Title: “On the Combination of Biased Members”

We consider the information transmission problem within organization, and especially we focus on how to combine biased subordinates to elicit truthful information from them. We assume that the directions of subordinates’ biases are common knowledge, but not their sizes. This leads to the results that homogeneous combination of subordinates are better than heterogeneous one. This is because in the case of homogeneous subordinates, the effect of one’s false report might be accelerated by another false report and this anxiety reduces an incentive for subordinates to send a false report.Abstract：Takashi Shimizu