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Essays on reputation
In the dissertation, we study the value of reputation in a market prone to adverse selection and also the incentives of the individuals in that market to participate in the reputation mechanism. Ever since [Akerlof, 1970], it is known that adverse selection can hinder trade. Reputation can be used …
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Die Ökonomik der Reputation
Gegenstand dieser Arbeit ist die Betrachtung der Reputation eines Unternehmens aus ökonomischer Sicht. Die Zusammenfassung von Beurteilungen der Unternehmensaktivitäten durch wirtschaftlich relevante Interessengruppen bildet eine Unternehmensreputation. Die Reputation wird hier mit einem …
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Reputation with stopping time decision
… between two players while one player has reputation concern and the other player's decision is a stopping time. The equilibrium structure depends on the value of the long run relationship: when the value of the relationship is low, a simple threshold equilibrium is the unique equilibrium; …
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Acquirer reputation in mergers and acquisitions
Reputation is a firm’s key intangible assets for shareholders’ value creation. Reputation building is a firm’s corporate strategy approach that is vital for the firm in order to sustain itself in this competitive global world. The influence of reputation on firm’s performance, decision making, …
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The effects of reputation on collaboration
This study explored how direct and indirect reputations impacted collaboration in an online dictator game. Previous research shows that human participants in dictator games are more generous towards players with a positive reputation. In our study (n = 260), the participant played a multi-round …
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Analyst Reputation, Communication and Information Acquisition
… maker. In the first chapter, I study how reputational concerns affect analysts' incentives to invest in information acquisition, and subsequently, their strategic communication with investors in form of "repeated cheap talk". In a setting where analysts' incentives may be misaligned with …
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The literary reputation of Samuel Daniel
… Daniel has never been the subject of a thorough reputation study. I have, therefore, examined the body of critical opinion directed to Daniel's works from his own day to the present. I have drawn conclusions about his over-all reputation and the reputation of the individual works. In addition, I …
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Collaborative reputation mechanisms for online communities
… met and have no information on each other's reputation. This kind of information is vital in Electronic Commerce interactions, where the potential counterpart's reputation can be a significant factor in the negotiation strategy. I will investigate two complementary reputation mechanisms that …
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K x N Trust-Based Agent Reputation
… n) Nearest Neighbor where k neighbors recommend reputation values for trust during each of n interactions. Reputation allows a single agent to receive recommendations about the trustworthiness of others. One goal is to present a recommendation model of trust that outperforms MAS architectures …
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The Neural Computation of Trust and Reputation
… available prior information concerning the reputation of these partners may alter the way in which outcomes affect learning. This thesis combines for the first time behavioral, computational, psychophysiological and neural models in a direct comparison of interaction-based and prior-based …
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Systematic Measurement of Centralized Online Reputation Systems
Background: Centralized online reputation systems, which collect users' opinions on products, transactions and events as reputation information then aggregate and publish it, have been widely adopted by Internet companies. These systems can help users build trust, reduce information asymmetry and …
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Reputation and cooperation in social dilemma games
… of cooperation is the maintenance of informal reputation hierarchies. Reputational information contributes to cooperation by providing guidelines about previous group-beneficial or free-rider behaviour in social dilemma interactions. How reputation system emerges, however, remains a puzzle. The …
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Consumer information, product quality, and seller reputation
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, February 1981.
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REPUTATION COMPUTATION IN SOCIAL NETWORKS AND ITS APPLICATIONS
<p>This thesis focuses on a quantification of reputation and presents models which compute reputation within networked environments. Reputation manifests past behaviors of users and helps others to predict behaviors of users and therefore reduce risks in future interactions. There are two …
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The Literary Reputation of The Brontes: 1846-1951
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T20:51:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0003132.pdf: 19422346 bytes, checksum: 9f8fab0ef533a77153e11648fd374434 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1951
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The English Reputation of Matthew Arnold, 1840-1877
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T20:52:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 5902065.pdf: 22218566 bytes, checksum: c35bd7b3b72319a6be74278aa0858aeb (MD5) Previous issue date: 1959
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Reputation-based Trust Framework for Service Oriented Environments
… environments. We focus on providing a reputation framework that would enable trust-based interactions with and amongst Web services. We define methods for the creation of reputation information, its collection, and assessment that are robust in the face of a variety of attacks. Our …
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Reputation management for regulatory agencies focused on government relations
Reputation management is not straightforward and is an ongoing and active process. This paper considers the unique challenges to reputation management for regulatory agencies by considering five problems: politics, consistency, charisma, uniqueness, and excellence. This research advances the …
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