Is reputation good or bad? An experiment

American Economic Review

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2187-2204

  Grosskopf, Brit ^a   Sarin, Rajiv ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 78650505060     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.100.5.2187     Document Type: Article

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