Social Transformation, Group Reputation, and Reputation Matching

• Main Authors: WANG, Huan, ZHANG, Yi
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Social Transformation; Group Reputation; Reputation Matching; Corruption; Behavioral Economics; Economics
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1710; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/2709/viewcontent/GroupReputation_2015.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Unlike in small communities where one can strategically interact with another according to the latter’s individual reputation, players in complex societies often have to interact with strangers whose individual reputations cannot be easily acquired. They often have to infer their counterparts’ chara...