conveying reputational information. Based on evidence from five transition countries, we find that trade associations’ role as …Inter-firm information exchange with respect to the reliability of trade partners may be unmediated in the sense that … it involves direct communication between the personnel of two firms. Alternatively, this information flow may be …

conveying reputational information. Based on evidence from five transition countries, we find that trade associations’ role as …Inter-firm information exchange with respect to the reliability of trade partners may be unmediated in the sense that … it involves direct communication between the personnel of two firms. Alternatively, this information flow may be …

whether or not information on contractual disputes between firms is disseminated to other market participants. We find that … these reputation flows are channeled both through informal communication among firms as well as through third party …

conveying reputational information. Based on evidence from five transition countries, we find that trade associations’ role as …Inter-firm information exchange with respect to the reliability of trade partners may be unmediated in the sense that … it involves direct communication between the personnel of two firms. Alternatively, this information flow may be …

This paper studies the role of communication and reputation in market interactions using data from online procurement … auctions. Not only positive reputation ratings but also engaging in communication increases a bidder's probability of winning … the auction. Messages are primarily used to reduce the asymmetric information associated with transactions. …

, that with a high cooperation premium and good information, investment in reputation grows across sets of finitely … remains unclear. In each of six treatments that vary the cooperation premium and the informational basis for reputation … forces of (a) learning about the benefits of reputation, and (b) learning about backward unraveling. We find, inter alia …

Building on the seminal paper of Ordover, Saloner and Salop (1990), I study the role of reputation building on … foreclosure in laboratory experiments. In one-shot interactions, upstream firms can choose to build a reputation by revealing … their price history to the current upstream competitor. In particular, integrated firms can establish a reputation to …

Online ratings play an important role in many markets. We study the often disputed information content of these ratings …

We study the role of information about the multiplier in a finitely repeated investment game. A high multiplier … information about the multiplier. We discuss potential reasons for the deviation between theory and experimental data. …