them from low types, but countersignaling itself is a signal of confidence which separates high types from medium types …

signaling levels and the opposite is true at high signaling levels, underlines the phenomenon of countersignaling. We show that …

Do international university rankings or professional accreditations affect the preferences of exchange students over … results indicate that international rankings (the THESR) and business school accreditations (AACSB and EQUIS) are important …

trust them. We identify two trust devices: social ties and public rankings. We explore whether these personal and impersonal … both previous contacts and league table rankings of firms contribute to trust and to dealmaking. These trust devices are … together. Finally, we find some evidence of substitution between rankings and personal ties, especially for low-value deals. …

configurations for Grand Slam tournaments. The estimation results can be used to construct rankings of players for different court …

Publication and citation rankings have become major indicators of the scientific worth of universities and countries …, and determine to a large extent the career of individual scholars. We argue that such rankings do not effectively measure … research quality is considered. Even quantity rankings are not objective; two citation rankings, based on different samples …

Peer reviews and rankings today are the backbone of research governance, but recently came under scrutiny. They take … offers an alternative to the present regime of academic rankings. …

Strong forces lead to a withering of academia as it exists today. The major causal forces are the rankings mania …