Information acquisition and reputation dynamics

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1400-1425

  Liu, Qingmin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Costly information acquisition; Repeated games; Reputation

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC THEORY; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; INDUSTRIAL PRACTICE; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MARKET CONDITIONS; MARKET SYSTEM; MODEL TEST; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84855168511     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/restud/rdq039     Document Type: Article

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