, 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 …

In economic approaches it is often argued that reputation considerations influence the behavior of individuals or firms … and that reputation influences the outcome of markets. Empirical evidence is rare though. In this contribution we argue … that a positive reputation of sellers should have an effect on selling prices. Analyzing auctions of popular DVDs at eBay …

This paper examines reputation, the belief of a decision maker about types of advisors, in a two period cheap talk …

We present a leverage theory of reputation building with co-branding. We show that under certain conditions, co … high product quality and establish their own reputation. We compare this situation with a benchmark in which both sectors …

Reputation concerns in credit markets restrain borrowers' temptations to take excessive risk. The strength of these …

its equilibrium strategy in a repeated but finite game, in order to build an environmental reputation if we suppose that … reputation. Due to the peculiarity of environmental information (green products are credence goods), we claim that an explicit … the reputation effect …

The paper presents a theory that large scales are necessary to establish reputation. In the model, each producer yields … with some probability. Due to noisiness of single performance, a producer cannot establish reputation in market. Free of … Central Limit Theorem the paper ensures that is not true. Thus the middleman is always able to establish reputation if the …