12月17日（月）16：00〜18：00
場所：3F1200L
講演者：中嶋亮氏（慶応義塾大学、経済学部教授、2018年石川賞/2004年森口賞）
題目：Examining Patent Examiners: Present Bias, Procrastination and Time Pressure
要旨：This research studies present-biased procrastination of U.S. patent examiners. 

We describe patent examination work as a problem of intertemporal effort allocation 

by the agent who must complete a task in a fixed deadline, and adopt the standard two-

parameter model (β-δ model) to characterize a conflict between short-run and long-run 

preferences. We apply the model to a large-scale administrative data from the U.S. 

Patent and Trademark Office with information on daily transaction history of patent 

applications in the field of Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry. The empirical results 

support evidence for procrastination by present-biased patent examiners.