avoidance to minimize unwanted scrutiny that could impair the firms' reputation. We identify a set of firms with valuable … consumer reputation using Harris Interactive's EquiTrend survey, which surveys consumers about their perceptions of valuable …

monopolistic certifier can be hump-shaped in its reputation for accuracy: a higher accuracy attracts high-quality sellers but … one certifier, competition plays a disciplining role and the region where reputation is bad shrinks. Conversely, this …

“reputation risk” posed by doing business with the National Rifle Association (a gun rights advocacy group). As part of Operation … “reputation risk.” Another federal regulator warns banks their reputations might be damaged by lending to oil and gas companies … that are perceived to cause environmental harm. Reputation risk is the risk that bank stakeholders will negatively change …

event that prompts agencies to improve the rating process to recover their reputation. Agencies efforts seems to be greater …

reputation: “Reputation Failure.” By spotlighting the public-good nature of reviews, rankings, and even gossip, this Article … biases that systematically distort it. The Article argues that these distortions are inherent to most systems of reputation … and that they make reputation far less reliable than traditionally understood.The limits of reputation highlight the …

a firm with a low reputation to reestablish itself. But, the ability to promote can crowd out incentives for investment … at high reputations; the firm allows its reputation to decay more before it is renewed relative to a firm motivated by …

Reputation systems aim to induce honest behavior in online trade by providing information about past conduct of users …. Online reputation, however, is not directly connected to a person, but only to the virtual identity of that person. Users can … therefore shed a negative reputation by creating a new account. We study the effects of such identity changes on the efficiency …

Venture Capital reputation is the perception that a Venture Capital (VC) firm will create value for investors. This … note briefly surveys the firm reputation literature, and lists the top 10 most reputed VC firms …

misbehaving company's reputation. The reputational impact of litigation depends on factors such as whom the judge is scolding …

intuitive appeal than blurring; it has seemingly clear parallels with other areas of the law involving harm to reputation; and …, multivalent notion of brand “reputation”. Third, looking to literature on consumer psychology, I will consider whether, in the …