new evidence regarding the roles of borrower reputation, lead arranger reputation and the bank-borrower relationship …. First, lead arranger reputation can reduce information asymmetry but only for the most reputable lead arrangers. Second …, borrower reputation, measured by the borrower’s past access of the loan market, reduces the problem of information asymmetry …

of privately known competence, who cares about his reputation, chooses the timing of the forecast regarding the outcome …. Further, any report hurts the forecaster’s reputation in the short run, with later reports incurring larger penalties. The … reputation of a silent forecaster, on the other hand, gradually improves over time. …

make a voluntary payment, a bonus, after observing advice quality. While the combination of competition and reputation …. Thus, our results suggest that a voluntary component can act as a substitute for either competition or reputation …

This paper derives conditions under which reputation enables certifiers to resist capture. These conditions alone have … natural monopoly. 3) Price competition tends to a monopolization. The results derive from a general principle of reputation … efficient market institutions that sell reputation as a service to other firms. …