Status and reputation concerns are conjectured to be important especially in markets with information asymmetries … between buyers and sellers, such as in credence goods markets. To investigate the effects of status and reputation on …-mail requests to insurance brokers asking for an appointment. We find that status nudging and, with a larger effect size, reputation …

Building on the seminal paper of Ordover, Saloner and Salop (1990), I study the role of reputation building on … foreclosure in laboratory experiments. In one-shot interactions, upstream firms can choose to build a reputation by revealing … their price history to the current upstream competitor. In particular, integrated firms can establish a reputation to …

Reputation is a commonly cited check on opportunism in economic and social interactions. But it is often unclear what …