Is reputation good or bad?: An experiment

B. Grosskopf; R. Sarin

doi:10.1257/aer.100.5.2187

Is reputation good or bad? An experiment

B. Grosskopf, R. Sarin

Economics

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We investigate the impact of reputation in a laboratory experiment. We do so by varying whether the past choices of a long-run player are observable by the short-run players. Our framework allows for reputation to have either a beneficial or a harmful effect on the long-run player. We find that reputation is seldom harmful and its beneficial effects are not as strong as theory suggests. When reputational concerns are at odds with other-regarding preferences, we find the latter overwhelm the former.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2187-2204
Number of pages	18
Journal	The American Economic Review
Volume	100
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.100.5.2187
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2010

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