We revisit the signalling hypothesis, whereby potential employers use the duration of unemployment as a signal as to … the productivity of applicants. We suggest that the quality of sucha signal is very low when the unemployed receive …

research productivity, the least productive schools may do as much research as the top-tier ones only to manipulate students … future students. This signaling equilibrium is characterized by a relative neglect of teaching by the top-tier schools. Such …

. Experimental evidence shows that leadership works more through reciprocity than through signaling. In leading-by-sacrifice, the … leader can give up a part of her payoff. Experimental evidence indicates that this sacrifice works as a truthful signaling …

experiment measures a social return to schooling even in the presence of signaling, whereas strategies based on quasi …-experiments are not necessarily robust to signaling. Our instrumental variable estimation finds returns to schooling very similar to … the rest of the literature, which is a strong case against the signaling hypothesis. …

the classical signaling model by Spence. If banks' returns can be observed while risk cannot, less efficient banks can …

the classical signaling model by Spence. If banks' returns can be observed while risk cannot, less efficient banks can …

available only to subscribers. This paper argues that authors might use publication strategy as a quality signaling device. The …