social reputation or self-respect. The presence of rewards or punishments creates doubt as to the true motive for which good …

opponent's preferences. Agents then have an incentive to promote their reputation as skilled bargainers through their …

expectations improve and the economy grows. Once there is predation, the reputation of the current government is ruined and the …

his reputation for truth telling, we show that the larger the inequality, the less information can credibly be transmitted …

types to voters. We identify two novel implications of models in which signalling incentives are important. First, because …. Second, voters can exploit the signalling behavior of politicians by precommitting to a higher threshold for signals received …. Raising the threshold discourages signalling effort by low quality politicians but encourages effort by high quality …