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Levy, Gilat - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

decision makers who are motivated by reputation concerns tend to ‘anti-herding’, i.e., they excessively contradict public …

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Reputation and allocation of ownership

Halonen, Maija - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1995

We show that allocation of ownership matters even in a long-term relationship where problems of opportunism are less severe unless agents are very patient. Ownership structure is chosen to give the agents best incentives to cooperate. The optimal control structure of the static game restricts...

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Re-Thinking Reputation

Mell, Andrew - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011

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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Career Concerns with Coarse Information

Bonatti, Alessandro; Horner, Johannes - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2011

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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The Quality of Information in Electronic Groups

Bacharach, Michael; Board, Oliver - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2000

-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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Reputation Effects and Equilibrium Degeneracy in Continuous-Time Games

Faingold, Eduardo; Sannikov, Yuliy - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2007

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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A Behavioral Model of Bargaining with Endogenous Types

Abreu, Dilip; Pearce, David - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2003

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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Scandal, Protection, and Recovery in Political Cabinets

Myatt, David P.; Dewan, Torun - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2005

collective reputation with the wider membership of her cabinet; we show that heterogeneity of cabinet membership can play an …

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The broadening spectrum of reputation risk in organizations: banking on risk and trust relationships

Scott, Susan V.; Walsham, Geoff - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

Globalizing knowledge economies foster conditions that intensify the role and value of organizational reputation risk …. In a holistic, enterprise focused era reputation is a key strategic construct that can act as a boundary object linking … reputation risk. Having noted the ambivalence that surrounds ‘risk positions’, we present a re-definition of reputation risk that …

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IMF concern for reputation and conditional lending failure: theory and empirics

Marchesi, Silvia; Sabani, Laura - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

order to preserve its reputation of being a good monitor, may actually distort its lending decisions towards greater laxity … between a country and the IMF. The longer this relationship, the stronger the IMF reputation will be affected in case it …

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