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In this paper we analyze a reputation-based mechanism that sustains the provision of high quality in a market for an … experience good. In contrast to existing models of reputation, however, we consider a competitive market: there is a continuum of … an invariant long run distribution of firms' reputations: each firm's reputation changes every period even in the long …
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Economic models of reputation make strong assumptions about the information available to players.  In particular, it is … observe in the real world.  We build a model of reputation with more realistic assumptions about the partial knowledge of the …
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This paper develops a model of career concerns. The worker's skill is revealed through output, wage is based on expected output, and so on assessed ability. Specifically, effort increases the probability that a skilled worker achieves a one-time breakthrough. Effort levels at different times are...
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-weighted information may be maximized by a different regime, in which all replying is anonymous. Reputation effects play a key role in our …
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We study a class of continuous-time reputation games between a large player and a population of small players in which …
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We enrich a simple two-person bargaining model by introducing "behavioral types" who concede more slowly than does the average person in the economy. The presence of behavioral types profoundly influences the choices of optimizing types. In equilibrium, concessions are calculated to induce...
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This paper shows that more intense competition may improve, rather than hamper, the chances that a market for an experience good or service overcomes the problems caused by informational asymmetries. This, in spite of the fact that intensified competition diminishes the reputational rents that...
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collective reputation with the wider membership of her cabinet; we show that heterogeneity of cabinet membership can play an …
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high quality. A firm may want to start over under a new name in order to avoid market punishment, if the reputation carried …
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price-takers. Entrants have an endogenous reputation uE. In the steady-state equilibrium, uE is the lowest reputation among …
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