Recommended readings (Machine generated): 1.MichaelSpence(2002),'SignalinginRetrospectandtheInformationalStructureofMarkets',AmericanEconomicReview,92(3),June,434-59 -- 2. George A. Akerlof (2002), 'Behavioral Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Behavior', American Economic Review, 92 (3), June, 411-33 -- 3. Joseph E. Stiglitz (2002), 'Information and the Change in the Paradigm in Economics', American Economic Review, 92 (3), June, 460-501 -- 4. John G. Riley (2001), 'Silver Signals: Twenty-Five Years of Screening and Signaling', Journal of Economic Literature, XXXIX (2), June, 432-78 -- 5. Kenneth J. Arrow (1996), 'The Economics of Information: An Exposition', Empirica, 23 (2), June, 119-28 -- 6. W. Bentley MacLeod (2007), 'Reputations, Relationships, and Contract Enforcement', Journal of Economic Literature, XLV (3), September, 595-628 -- 7. Bengt Holmström (1999), 'Managerial Incentive Problems: A Dynamic Perspective', Review of Economic Studies, Special Issue: Contracts, 66 (1), January, 169-82 -- 8. Jeffrey C. Ely and Juuso Välimäki (2003), 'Bad Reputation', Quarterly Journal of Economics, CXVIII (3), August, 785-814 -- 9. Johannes Hörner (2002), 'Reputation and Competition', American Economic Review, 92 (3), June, 644-63 -- 10. Mathias Dewatripont and Jean Tirole (2005), 'Modes of Communication', Journal of Political Economy, 113 (6), December, 1217-38 -- 11. Richard Rogerson, Robert Shimer and Randall Wright (2005), 'Search-Theoretic Models of the Labor Market: A Survey', Journal of Economic Literature, XLIII (4), December, 959-88 -- 12. Dean Karlan, Markus Mobius, Tanya Rosenblat and Adam Szeidl (2009), 'Trust and Social Collateral', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 124 (3), August, 1307-61 -- 13. Abhijit V. Banerjee (1992), 'A Simple Model of Herd Behavior', Quarterly Journal of Economics, CVII (3), August, 797-817 -- 14. Yannis M. Ioannides and Linda Datcher Loury (2004), 'Job Information Networks, Neighborhood Effects, and Inequality', Journal of Economic Literature, XLII (4), December, 1056-93 -- 15. Matthew O. Jackson (2014), 'Networks in the Understanding of Economic Behaviors', Journal of Economic Perspectives, 28 (4), Fall, 3-22 -- 16. H. Peyton Young (2009), 'Innovation Diffusion in Heterogeneous Populations: Contagion, Social Influence, and Social Learning', American Economic Review, 99 (5), December, 1899-924 -- 17. Sushil Bikhchandani, David Hirshleifer and Ivo Welch (1992), 'A Theory of Fads, Fashion, Custom, and Cultural Change as Informational Cascades', Journal of Political Economy, 100 (5), October, 992-1026 -- 18. Roland Benabou and Guy Laroque (1992), 'Using Privileged Information to Manipulate Markets: Insiders, Gurus, and Credibility', Quarterly Journal of Economics, CVII (3), August, 921-58