This paper extends the team production theory pioneered by Holmstrom (1982) with a team signaling model. In the model, the team's output acts as a signal of the team's ability, and thus is valuable for the team members. The team members will cooperate to some extent to signal a speci fic type,...

By introducing asymmetric information of investors' abilities and finitely repeated games into the classic hold-up model, this paper revisits the relationship between property rights and reputation under incomplete contracting environment and obtains some different insights. First, even facing...