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Who Stands on the Shoulders of Chinese (Scientific) Giants? : Evidence from Chemistry

Qiu, Shumin; Steinwender, Claudia; Azoulay, Pierre - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In recent decades, Chinese researchers have become preeminent contributors to the scientific enterprise, as reflected by the number of publications originating from Chinese research institutions. China's rise in science has the potential to push forward the global frontier, but mere production...

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Games Daughters and Parents Play : Teenage Childbearing, Parental Reputation, and Strategic Transfers

Hao, Lingxin - 2000

In this paper, we examine the empirical implications of reputation formation using a game-theoretic model of intra …-familial interactions. We consider parental reputation in repeated two-stage games in which daughters' decision to have a child as a … work of Milgrom and Roberts (1982) and Kreps and Wilson (1982) on reputation in repeated games, we show that parents have …

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The Determinants of Trust

Alesina, Alberto - 2000

Both individual experiences and community characteristics influence how much people trust each other. Using data drawn from US localities we find that the strongest factors that reduce trust are: i) a recent history of traumatic experiences, even though the passage of time reduces this effect...

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Does Political Ambiguity Pay? Corporate Campaign Contributions and the Rewards to Legislator Reputation

Kroszner, Randall S. - 2000

Do politicians tend to follow a strategy of ambiguity in their policy positions or a strategy of reputational development to reduce uncertainty about where they stand? Ambiguity could allow a legislator to avoid alienating constituents and to play rival interests off against each other to...

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Transparency and Credibility : Monetary Policy with Unobservable Goals

Faust, Jon - 1998

We define and study transparency, credibility, and reputation in a model where the central bank's characteristics are … the sense that it induces lower inflation and employment than expected. Increased transparency makes the bank's reputation …

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Reputation Spillover Across Relationships with Enduring and Transient Beliefs : Reviving reputation Models of Debt

Cole, Harold L. - 1996

rate of return by saving abroad. Bulow and Rogoff conjecture that, even under condition (ii), in more general reputation … models with multiple relationships and spillover across them, reputation may support debt. This paper shows what is needed …

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Sovereign Debt, Reputation, and Credit Terms

Eaton, Jonathan - 1990

I develop a model in which sovereign debtors repay debt in order to maintain a reputation for repayment. Repayment …

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Tariffs with Private Information and Reputation

Jensen, Richard A. - 1989

When governments choose trade policy, rarely do they have complete information, At the time decisions are made, policy makers have only estimates of market responses, as well as the responses of foreign governments. In many realistic situations, even the policy objectives of other governments...

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Bank Size, Reputation, and Debt Renegotiation

Fernandez, Raquel - 1988

This paper examines the effect that the coexistence of small and large banks, with different interests in the international market, has on the debt renegotiation process. Making use of a reputational model, we argue that the presence of small banks implies that debtor countries have a harder...

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Proprietary Public Finance, Political Competition, and Reputation

Grossman, Herschel I. - 1988

Although tax policy in most historical cases has been barely distinguishable from legalized theft, why have tax and spending policies in a few unusually fortunate communities, such as some of the modern democracies, apparently been, if not welfare maximizing, at least relatively benevolent? We...

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