一个实验测试,看看金融激励是否构成在决策过程中不正当的诱惑
1Department of Economics and UBS Center for Economics in Society, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland. sandro.ambuehl@econ.uzh.ch.
Nature human behaviour
|March 8, 2024
概括
参与人类研究等交易的激励措施并没有损害福利,尽管导致了偏见的信息搜索. 这表明,目前限制激励措施的法律可能不需要保护个人.
科学领域:
- 行为经济学是一种行为经济学.
- 决策科学 决策科学 决策科学
- 生物伦理学生物伦理学
背景情况:
- 世界各地的法律限制了对敏感交易的激励措施 (例如,人类研究参与,性器捐赠,代孕).
- 这些限制源于对"不当诱导"的担忧 - - 激励措施会对决策产生负面影响的假设.
- 对不当诱导的经验证据在很大程度上仍未经过测试.
研究的目的:
- 在潜在的敏感交易中实证地调查激励措施对决策的影响.
- 测试金融激励导致有害决策和破坏福利的假设.
- 在受监管交易中的激励上限方面为政策提供信息.
主要方法:
- 两项实验分别对671名和406名参与者进行.
- 一个实验涉及一个内在的交易:吃昆虫.
- 使用理论建模和经验分析来评估不同激励水平的影响.
主要成果:
- 激励导致了偏见的信息搜索;更高的激励与寻求鼓励遵守的增加相关.
- 这种有偏见的搜索在理论上与贝叶斯理性相一致,并没有本质上证明有害影响.
- 虽然少数人做出了不理想的决定,但激励措施并没有不成比例地放大这些错误.
结论:
- 经验证据不支持这样的假设,即激励措施在测试交易中显著削弱了福利.
- 观察到的偏见信息搜索与理性决策模型相容.
- 调查结果表明,在较低的激励级别被认为是允许的交易中,可能不需要限制激励措施.
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