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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Costly Signaling"”.
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Volunteer Spotlighting: Costly Signaling to Promote Volunteerism
… behaviors, because they are initially costly and do not guarantee a direct benefit to the actor, can nonetheless increase social status by signaling a willingness to incur cost on behalf of another. Given this signal value, nonprofit organizations may be able to leverage this knowledge …
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Costly Signaling and Social Valuation: A Multi-Method Examination of Social Information Processing
… individuals of the opposite sex increase status signaling through motivation for reward. However, both advertisements and retail environments contain more complex (i.e., heterogeneous) social groups. It is unclear how same-sex presences may impact status and reward seeking behavior.</p> <p> …
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Sex and Fear: Mathematical models of mate choice, parental care, and maladaptive anxiety
… In Chapter 1 of this thesis, a model of costly signaling is developed to investigate how stochastic signal costs influence the overall cost of communication. Chapter 2 presents a model of mate choice where females must infer from his appearance whether a potential mate will choose to be a …
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INVESTIGATING THE DETERMINANTS AND ENDOGENOUS INFLUENCES OF ENVIRONMENTAL REPUTATION
… following five well-established theories: the costly signaling theory, the resource-based view of firm, the Porter’s eco-efficiency perspective, the social identity theory, and the third-person effect theory. A sample of 271 companies was drawn from the 500 largest U.S. public companies listed …
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Essays on Asset Pricing
… disclosure makes a market intermediary engage in costly signaling, which reduces transaction prices for investors and equivalently rent per transaction for the intermediary. Investors as a result benefit, and are more likely to trade. The intermediary, however, could benefit too if the increase in …
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Essays on organizational economics and the heterogeneity of firm performance
… probability have an opportunity to send a costly signal of their type at a later stage. I show that this can generate informative cheap-talk in environments in which, absent the prospect of a costly signal, cheap-talk messages would otherwise be uninformative. However firms will face a …
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Communication, Information, and Learning
… refinement that applies to both cheap-talk and costly signaling games. Robust neologism proofness eliminates equilibria that can be undone by a certain kind of credible communication from the sender to the receiver. We show that robust neologism proof equilibria exist both in monotonic signaling …