讲座主题：Time is Knowledge: What Response Times Reveal

主讲嘉宾：刘烁 北京大学

讲座时间：2025年4月11日周五14:00-16:00

讲座地点：永利官网沙河校区学院楼11号楼308会议室

嘉宾简介：

刘烁，北京大学光华管理学院应用经济学系副教授，苏黎世大学经济学博士。主要研究领域为博弈论与信息经济学，特别是它们在产业组织竞争和激励机制设计等场景中的应用。研究成果发表于American Economic Review, Management Science, Theoretical Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, Economic Journal, RAND Journal of Economics和《经济学》（季刊）等国内外知名学术期刊。

讲座内容简介：

Response times contain information about economically relevant but unobserved variables like willingness to pay, preference intensity, quality, or happiness. Here, we provide a general characterization of the properties of latent variables that can be detected using response time data. Our characterization unifies and generalizes results in the literature, solves identification problems of binary response models, and has many new applications. We apply the result to test and support the hypothesis that marginal happiness is decreasing in income, a principle that is commonly accepted but so far not established empirically.