What is a good reputation? Career concerns with heterogeneous audiences

Heski Bar-Isaac; Joyee Deb

doi:10.1016/j.ijindorg.2014.02.012

What is a good reputation? Career concerns with heterogeneous audiences

Heski Bar-Isaac, Joyee Deb

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When an agent faces audiences with heterogeneous preferences, it is non-trivial to determine what a "good" reputation means, and the return to reputation can be a non-monotonic function. We illustrate this through standard IO examples, and discuss some implications for reputation-building in a simple two-period career concerns framework. We conclude by discussing other observations concerning the impact of heterogeneous audiences on reputation-building.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	44-50
Number of pages	7
Journal	International Journal of Industrial Organization
Volume	34
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijindorg.2014.02.012
State	Published - May 2014

Keywords

Career concerns
Cigarettes and alcohol
Common agency
Reputation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Industrial relations
Aerospace Engineering
Economics and Econometrics
Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)
Strategy and Management
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

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