We develop a theory of collective brand reputation for markets in which product quality is jointly determined by local …

Does access to the broadband internet stimulate firm growth? In this paper, I analyze within-firm growth of established … firms caused by the access to faster internet using geocoded social-security data. I identify firm responses to the access … to the first generation of broadband internet and later speed upgrades by exploiting technological peculiarities of the …

, when motivated agents value the collective reputation of their place of employment, steady-state equilibria with both high … and low aggregate motivation (reputation) in the mission-oriented sector exist. Reforming a low-motivation institution …, but positive for a low-reputation institution, a transition to a high-reputation steady state requires an initial wage …

attention to reputation for quality. This provides empirical support to recent models in behavioral industrial organization that …

value the collective reputation of their institution, e.g. due to a prosocial signaling motive or identity concerns. The … initial insight of the analysis is that there exists both a highreputation, low-wage equilibrium and a low-reputation, high …-wage equilibrium. Importantly, the comparative statics of motivation and wage differ between the equilibria: starting from low-reputation …

no incentive to exclude bidders, even if they are nearly certain to default; (iii) buyer reputation systems reward … bidders with a reputation for defaulting, counter to the idea of deterring such behavior. Our auction experiments support …