Bad reputation

Jeffrey C. Ely; Juuso Välimäki

doi:10.1162/00335530360698423

Bad reputation

Jeffrey C. Ely, Juuso Välimäki

Economics

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Abstract

We construct a model where the reputational concern of the long-run player to look good in the current period results in the loss of all surplus. This is in contrast to the bulk of the literature on reputations where such considerations mitigate myopic incentive problems. We also show that in models where all parties have long-run objectives, such losses can be avoided.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	785-814
Number of pages	30
Journal	Quarterly Journal of Economics
Volume	118
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1162/00335530360698423
State	Published - Aug 2003

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