Audited reputation

Hong Xu*, Jianqing Chen, Andrew B. Whinston

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Abstract

We study reputations with imperfect audit and a reputation market. The main result shows the existence of a separating equilibrium in the reputation market, which contrasts with Tadelis [Tadelis, S., 2002, The market for reputations as an incentive mechanism, Journal of Political Economy 110(4), 854-882].

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)359-362
Number of pages4
JournalEconomics Letters
Volume100
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2008
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Audit
  • Infinitely repeated game
  • Reputation

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