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reputation-conscious agents to supply a public good. Each agent chooses how much to contribute based on his own mix of public …
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price rigidity. Reputation powerfully amplifies the positive effects of social preferences on contract enforcement by … interactions, suggesting that it may aggravate price rigidities. Surprisingly, reputation in fact weakens the wage and price …. -- Reputation ; reciprocity ; relational contracts ; price rigidity ; wage rigidity …
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can disentangle self-selection from reputation effects. Based on 476 taxi rides with four different types of taxis, we can … show strong reputation effects on the prices and service quality of drivers, while there is practically no evidence of a …
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School systems regularly use student assessments for accountability purposes. But, as highlighted by our conceptual model, different configurations of assessment usage generate performance-conducive incentives of different strengths for different stakeholders in different school environments. We...
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In two experiments, we examine the effects of employer reputation in an online labor market (Amazon Mechanical Turk) in … reputation, we find that good-reputation employers attract work of the same quality but at twice the rate as bad-reputation … employers. This is the first clean, field evidence on the value of employer reputation. It can serve as collateral against …
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In this paper we ask if reports of private information about skills, abilities or achievements are affected by image concerns. We develop a simple model that illustrates how image utility can lead to misreporting of private information in contexts where truthful reports maximize monetary...
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We develop a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns … for social reputation or self-respect. Rewards or punishments (whether material or image-related) create doubt about the …
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group incentive schemes in firms. -- teams ; reputation ; transparency ; group incentives ; sabotage …
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opportunistic behavior with multiple realizations. The consequent reputation concerns dramatically reduce cheating by large amounts …
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We analyze the offering, asking, and granting of help or other benefits as a three-stage game with bilateral private information between a person in need of help and a potential help-giver. Asking entails the risk of rejection, which can be painful: since unawareness of the need can no longer be...
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