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Analysis of the Signaling Hypothesis in Higher Education Marketing via Classroom Experiment

Kiss, Marietta - 2014

In the international literature of information asymmetry research on the field of marketing has been published since the 1970s. Several authors revealed the signal function of the quantity and specificity of the information in the marketing communication activities mainly in case of experience...

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The Signaling Role of Corporate Social Responsibility

Blumkin, Tomer - 2014

We examine the role of CSR as a mechanism for private provision of public goods. We argue that corporations are using … CSR to signal high product quality and demonstrate that signaling gives rise to an excessive level of contributions that … offered to corporations engaged in CSR activities …

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Signal Diffusion Mapping : Optimal Forecasting with Time Varying Lags

Gaskell, Paul - 2014

We introduce a new methodology for forecasting which we call Signal Diffusion Mapping. Our approach accommodates features of real world financial data which have been ignored historically in existing forecasting methodologies. Our method builds upon well-established and accepted methods from...

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Timing and Signaling Considerations for Recovery from Supply Chain Disruption

Yang, Zhibin (Ben) - 2014

We explore the supplier's and buyer's reactions to supply disruption under information asymmetry about the severity of disruption. Upon disruption, the supplier strategically quotes a due date for supply recovery and decides the completion time for recovery. Given the quoted due date, the buyer...

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Are Incentive Stock Options Signaling Better Corporate Governance? - An Evidence from Equity Carve-Outs

Seistrajkova, Biljana - 2017

I analyze the long-run performance and earnings management behavior of equity carve-outs conditioned on whether the executives received incentive stock options at the IPO date. Carve-outs that did not grant incentive stock options subsequently underperform both relative to the overall market and...

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The Signaling Effect of Raising Inflation

Barthelemy, Jean - 2017

's credibility, e.g. through reputation, or from his aversion to inflation, the private sector is unable to infer the central banker …

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Third-Party Punishment as a Costly Signal of High Continuation Probabilities in Repeated Games

Jordan, Jillian - 2017

suggests that reputation plays an important role in motivating such third-party punishment (TPP). Here we focus on a recently … proposed reputation-based account (Jordan et al., 2016) that invokes costly signaling. This account proposed that “trustworthy …

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Referrals and Search Efficiency : Who Learns What and When?

Barr, Tavis - 2017

Referrals can impact screening and self-selection of applicants during the hiring process. We model and estimate how referral information affects the selection of employees through job offers, acceptances, and turnover. Using rich data from a call center company, we show that referrals help...

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Signaling Through Pricing by Service Providers with Social Preferences

Jiang, Baojun - 2017

In many services markets such as consulting, auto-repair, financial planning and healthcare, the service provider may have more information about the customer's problem than the customer, and different customers may impose different costs on the service provider. In principle, the service...

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A Signaling Theory of Derivatives-Based Hedging

Anjos, Fernando - 2017

We model a commodity producing ﬁrm that has private information about future volume and requires outside ﬁnancing to fund a growth opportunity. Due to costly ﬁnancial distress, a ﬁrm's ﬁrst-best strategy is to sell forward its future production, avoiding any price risk. Low-volume...

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