Status and reputation have long been recognized as important influences in management research and recently much … strategic management studies have identified the different methods through which status and reputation are constructed. While … reputation has been linked with a history of quality, and status has been identified as an externally assigned measure of social …

, by grading honestly, a school can build up reputation. Introducing a concern for reputation into an established signaling … model of grading, we show that this mechanism reduces or even avoids grade inflation. -- grading ; signaling ; reputation …

We develop a tractable theory to study the impact of biased media on election outcomes, voter turnout and welfare. News … rise in media bias affects the election outcome in a non-monotonic way, and reduces voter welfare by decreasing the …