of privately known competence, who cares about his reputation, chooses the timing of the forecast regarding the outcome …. Further, any report hurts the forecaster’s reputation in the short run, with later reports incurring larger penalties. The … reputation of a silent forecaster, on the other hand, gradually improves over time. …

reputation for quality, and a principal (e.g. a regulator) can learn the agent's quality via costly inspections. Monitoring plays … two roles: an incentive role, because outcomes of inspections affect agent's reputation, and an informational role because …

Is the reputation of a firm tradeable when the previous owner has to retire even though ownership change is observable … good type. Hence reputation is tradeable, although ownership change is observable. In our model, reputation is an …

announcements is called a rating system. We show that, absent reputation effects, information censoring cannot improve attainable …, Mailath and Samuelson (2004), where it is shown that reputation effects do not last forever in such games if buyers can … the seller's payoff. -- Reputations ; Rating Systems ; Online Reputation Mechanisms ; Disappearing Reputations ; Permanent …

I show how changes in competition affect the power of reputation to induce sellers to exert effort. The impact of …. To guide the empirical analysis, I develop a model of reputation where the relative number of hosts and guests affects … the value of building a reputation through effort. In this framework, more competition depresses hosts' profits and leads …