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 …

. It is particularly suited in the context of a reputation index, because small amounts of noise can easily mask more …

How do lenders use their reputation when participating in syndicated loans? I address this question by focusing on … syndicate composition with respect to participants' reputation and its impact on loan spreads. I find that lender reputation … market finance features, rather than bank finance. However I find no evidence that lenders use their reputation and the …