-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 …

, we assess the potential of three types of quality signaling to increase demand for high-quality solar lamps. We find no …

based on the intrinsic value of their projects, but also on signaling payoffs, which depend on the public's assessment of …

We explore signaling behavior in settings with a discriminating signal and several costly nondiscriminating ( money … dividend signaling. The central testable implication of the model is verified empirically …

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 …