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Economists are skeptical about the economic benefits of hosting "mega-events" such as the Olympic Games or the World Cup, since such activities have considerable cost and seem to yield few tangible benefits. These doubts are rarely shared by policy-makers and the population, who are typically...
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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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We investigate the effect of hiring skilled immigrant employees on the performance of organizations. This relationship has been difficult to establish in prior work due to theoretical ambiguity, limited data, and inherent endogeneity. We overcome these difficulties by studying European football...
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We investigate the welfare effects of vertical integration of regional sports networks (RSNs) with programming distributors in U.S. multichannel television markets. Vertical integration can enhance efficiency by reducing double marginalization and increasing carriage of channels, but can also...
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