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Collective reputation implies an important externality. Among firms trading internationally, quality shocks about one … noninspected firms. These findings highlight the importance of collective reputation in international trade and the challenges … the strength of the reputation spillover. We find that the spillover effects are smaller in destinations where people have …
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Product-recall data and information on stock-price reactions to recalls are used to estimate the value of reputation in … occurs. We estimate that reputation accounts for 8.3 percent of firm value and that welfare is 26 percent of its first best …
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In a world of imperfect information, reputations often guide the sequential decisions to trust and to reward trust. We consider two-player situations where the players meet but once. One player - the truster - decides whether to trust, and the other player - the temptee - has a temptation to...
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which firms slant their reports toward the prior beliefs of their customers in order to build a reputation for quality. Bias …
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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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Quality certification programs help consumers to identify high-quality products or sellers in markets with information asymmetries. Using data from eBay UK's online marketplace, we study how certification's impact on consumer demand varies with market- and seller-level attributes, exploiting...
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firm invests, and the market shuts down. Learning introduces reputation incentives such that a fraction of entrants do … invest. If the market operates with spot prices, simple regulation can enhance the role of reputation to induce investment …
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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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Third-party cookies and related 'offsite' tracking technologies are frequently used to share user data across applications in support of ad delivery. These data are viewed as highly valuable for online advertisers, but their usage faces increasing headwinds. In this paper, we quantify the...
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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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