We develop a theory of the market for individual reputation, an indicator of regard by one’s peers and others. The … central questions are: 1) Does the quantity of exposures raise reputation independent of their quality? and 2) Assuming that … overall quality matters for reputation, does the quality of an individual’s most important exposure have an extra effect on …

, i.e., a two-sided reputation result would hold. In this note we show that this conjecture is indeed true for a wide set … of stage games for which the one-sided reputation result of Atakan and Ekmekci (2008) holds. -- Repeated Games … ; Reputation ; Equal Discount Factor ; Long-run Players ; War of Attrition …

, 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 …

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 …