We analyze the costs and benefits of using social image to foster virtuous behavior. A Principal seeks to motivate reputation-conscious agents to supply a public good. Each agent chooses how much to contribute based on his own mix of public-spiritedness, private signal about the value of the...

This paper analyzes a mechanism through which a supplier of unknown quality can overcome its asymmetric information problem by selling via a reputable downstream rm. The supplier’s adverse-selection problem can be solved if the downstream rm has established a reputation for delivering high...

Die Unternehmensreputation hat sich im Zeitalter der Globalisierung und Digitalisierung zu einem der wichtigsten Erfolgsfaktoren entwickelt. Die Wissenschaft begleitet diese Entwicklung durch intensive theoretische und empirische Forschungsarbeiten. Trotz unzureichender Datensätze besteht...

"It's generally accepted that being in a bigger market or on a winning team can cause a player to be overrated, while the opposite can leave them underrated. This book studies the effects of the sports media spotlight (and its absence) on the fortunes of teams in pennant races and Hall of Fame...

We develop and estimate a general equilibrium model in which monetary policy can deviate from active in.ation stabilization and agents face uncertainty about the nature of these deviations. When observing a deviation, agents conduct Bayesian learning to infer its likely duration. Under...

We show that political booms, measured by the rise in governments’ popularity, predict financial crises above and beyond other better-known early warning indicators, such as credit booms. This predictive power, however, only holds in emerging economies. We show that governments in emerging...

Prior studies that try to explain who gets tenure and why remain inconclusive, especially on whether non-meritocratic factors influence who becomes a professor. On the basis of career and publication data of virtually all sociologists working in German sociology departments, we test how...

Machine generated contents note: Foreword vii Introduction 1 PART ONE: Laying the Foundations 9 1 Why Build Your Reputation? 11 2 Setting The Scene - The Career Game 37 3 Your Reputation Game Plan 57 4 The Networking Blueprint 79 5 The Authority Blueprint 101 PART TWO: The Four Reputational...