prevailing incentive problem of the market and contemporaneously satisfy the reputation demand of the investors? This paper … theoretical approach that considers reputation as one of the most important aspects within the market. After analysing the status … smaller CRAs and new incumbents are the increase of market share as well as reputation. Therefore, the market competition …

show that in contrast with projects implemented by a single firm, in the case of joint projects a firm's reputation does … reputation considerations affect firms' decisions to participate in joint projects. We show that a high quality partner may not … be preferable to a low quality partner, and that a high reputation partner is not necessarily preferable to a low …

transaction-cost-political approaches. There has been some progress in recent years in developing such a "new economic theory of … federalism". Basic ideas and some insights of this theory are discussed with regard to the appropriate "federal" allocation of …