【学术聚焦▪论坛预告】经济学系双周学术论坛（三十三）

报告摘要

Empirical evidence suggests that individuals selectively avoid information depending on past choices. We address these findings by studying an agent whose choice behavior can be modeled as if she trades off two conflicting effects of information. The first is a psychological cost from the regret about past choices that are revealed to be suboptimal by the information, whereas the second is the instrumental value of information for making better-informed choices in the future. Our main axioms reflect the agent's desire to have fewer options before the arrival of information and to have more options after the arrival of information. We also posit axioms that connect the agent's consumption choice with her information choice. We show that all parameters can be uniquely identified from the choice behavior. We also provide comparative statics on the agent's information aversion attitude.

为了进一步加强对传统优势学科政治经济学、经济史和经济思想史的研究交流，经济学系开展“双周学术论坛”，邀请经济学系和其他系、所、中心师生介绍前沿科研成果，为广大经济学子打造一个高品质的学术交流平台。论坛研讨方向主要突出政治经济学、经济史和经济思想史，兼容发展经济学与应用微观等方向，立足中国大地，讲好中国故事。

The Economics Biweekly Academic Forum is organized by the department of economics in Xiamen University. This forum mainly discusses the topics in the field of political economics, economic history and history of economic thought, with the aim to strengthen the communication between these traditional disciplines and the state of the art in the literature. This forum invites speakers and research students from various departments, which is a high quality platform for academic communication and research discussion. The forum also provides an excellent stage to tell Chinese economics story with precise academic language and Chinese culture.