theory. Our unified reputation framework theoretically allows for either the good or the bad reputation prediction to emerge …We experimentally test whether the possibility of building a reputation impacts behavior in the manner suggested by …. Our design additionally varies whether reputation building is possible or not by making the past choices of the long run …

Electronic reputation or feedback mechanisms aim to mitigate the moral hazard problems associated with exchange among …

information informal reputation mechanisms need transmit. Models based on subgame perfection find that the information necessary … modest. The experiment we present indicates that even without any reputation information there is a non-negligible amount of …'s immediate past action increases cooperation. Recursive information about the partners' previous partners' reputation further …

We study how a decision maker uses his reputation to simultaneously influence the actions of multiple receivers with … heterogenous biases. The reputational payoff is single-peaked around a bliss reputation at which the incentives of the average … receiver are perfectly aligned. We evidence two equilibria characterized by repositioning towards this bliss reputation that …