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We consider an infinitely repeated game in which a privately informed, long-lived manager raises funds from short-lived investors in order to finance a project. The manager can signal project quality to investors by making a (possibly costly) forward-looking disclosure about her project's...
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We consider an infinitely repeated game in which a privately informed, long-lived manager raises funds from short-lived investors in order to finance a project. The manager can signal project quality to investors by making a (possibly costly) forward-looking disclosure about her project's...
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Community enforcement is an important device for sustaining efficiency in some repeated games of cooperation. We investigate cooperation when information about players' reputations spreads to their future partners through links in a social network that connects them. We find that information...
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Reciprocal feedback distorts the production and content of reputation information, hampering trust and trade efficiency … changes in the way feedback information flows through the system, leading to more accurate reputation information, more trust …
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An entrepreneur contracts with a consultant, who is protected by limited liability, to supply information about the state of a project prior to investing in it. For a given level of investment, a good project succeeds with higher probability than a bad one. The entrepreneur makes an upfront...
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We study the robustness of reputation management systems against distortions in rating behavior. In a laboratory trust … experiment with reputation management, we mimic a positive bias by exclusively offering the option to rate positively or to give …. This highlights the importance of negative ratings for the effectiveness of reputation systems. …
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is a noisy indicator of the firm's investment. We focus on dynamic reputation equilibria, whereby consumers "discipline …
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We introduce a framework to analyze the interaction of boundedly rational heterogeneous agents repeatedly playing a participation game with negative feedback. We assume that agents use different behavioral rules prescribing how to play the game conditionally on the outcome of previous rounds. We...
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Game theory holds out the promise of transforming the core of economic theory from ascience of rational choice into a science of human interaction. While traditional gametheory does open into social interaction, it mostly neglects another central feature ofeconomic intuition: spontaneous...
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