Tilburg University promotie PhD Defense

PhD Defense Y. Yang

Date: Time: 10:00 Location: Portraits room

Experiments on the hold-up problem and delegation

The four essays collected in this PhD thesis explore the hold-up problem and delegation using the experimental method. The first essay provides a summary of the experimental literature examining the hold-up problem. The second essay investigates the relationship between strategic delegation and the nature of the strategic interaction through a laboratory experiment. The third essay demonstrates strategic delegation can help mitigates the hold-up problem by setting the appropriate incentive schemes in a laboratory experiment. The fourth essay studies the credit shifting effect of delegation with rewards in an online experiment.

Yadi Yang (1990) received her Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Finance at the University of Hong Kong. She obtained her joint Master’s degree in Economics at Uppsala University and the University of Siena in 2013. After completing the Research Master program in Economics, she started in 2015 as a PhD candidate at the department of economics at TiSEM, Tilburg University.

  • Location: Cobbenhagen building, Portraits room
  • Supervisor: Prof. J.J.M. Potters
  • Co-supervisor: Dr. C. Argenton

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