-provided unless buyers are rewarded for it. Signaling theory implies that only high quality sellers would reward buyers for truthful … feedback. We explore this scope for signaling using Taobao's "reward-for-feedback" mechanism and find that items with rewards …

types to voters. We identify two novel implications of models in which signalling incentives are important. First, because …. Second, voters can exploit the signalling behavior of politicians by precommitting to a higher threshold for signals received …. Raising the threshold discourages signalling effort by low quality politicians but encourages effort by high quality …

but the signaling effect of price is far from complete, especially for non-innovator brands. The look of the pharmacy, as …