Disentangling a Bad Reputation: Changing Perceptions of Amyloids.

Dynamic Games among Traders in the Online Commerce Market

This paper studies dynamic games among traders through the reputation system in the online commerce market. The first part of the paper investigates how institutions and the reputation mechanism help to sustain trust in the online market. Using eBay as an example of online commerce market, we develop game theoretical models of asymmetric information on product quality and show that the reputati...

Running Head: DISENTANGLING ROLE PERCEPTIONS Disentangling Role Perceptions: How Perceived Role Breadth, Discretion, Instrumentality and Efficacy Relate to Helping and Taking Charge *

Changing the language of medical journals from Persian to English for the purpose of obtaining index: good or bad!

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When is reputation bad?

In traditional reputation theory, reputation is good for the longrun player. In "Bad Reputation," Ely and Valimaki give an example in which reputation is unambiguously bad. This paper characterizes a more general class of games in which that insight holds, and presents some examples to illustrate when the bad reputation effect does and does not play a role. The key properties are that participa...

Recovering from a bad reputation : changing beliefs about the quality of

Acquiring a reputation for high quality is especially urgent for producers in markets for durable goods with quality characteristics that remain uncertain over the product’s life. Using data from the U.S. automobile industry, our empirical evidence shows that a poor reputation associated with U.S. autos during the early 1980’s has persisted in reducing prices of more recent models, despite qual...