主讲人：John Bovay 博士

单位：Virginia Tech

时间：2023年5月8日（周一）下午2:00—4:30

地点：经济管理学院行政楼211会议室

主讲人简介：

John Bovay is an assistant professor in Food and Agricultural Policy. Much of his work focuses on the economics of regulation, with applications to the topics of food-safety regulation, food labeling (including labeling of genetically engineered food), and food waste. He strives to be actively engaged with agricultural producers, organizations, and commodity groups in Virginia and the Mid-Atlantic to ensure that these groups have access to a timely economic analysis of relevant policies.

报告简介：

Shaming, stringency, and shirking: Evidence from food-safety inspections

This paper examines the responses of chicken producers to public disclosure of discrete quality information (or categorization) regarding Salmonella in chicken carcasses. I demonstrate that producers exert effort to attain better categorization and shirk when failing to meet the required thresholds. Public disclosure mitigates this shirking effect. However, some producers shirk even under public disclosure when the threshold for disclosure is too stringent. The results suggest that the most effective quality disclosure policies would either disclose continuous (non-categorical) information or impose fines or other sanctions on producers attaining the poorest quality.