4 papers
The Empirical Content of Reputation Effects
Allen Vong
I revisit the classic reputation model in which a long-lived player, either normal or committed, faces short-lived players who may misspecify the commitment-type signal process. I…
Task Assignment with Interdependent Incentives
Yonghang Ji, Allen Vong
We study a manager's repeated assignment of a burden among a group of homogeneous workers under imperfect public monitoring of workers' effort. Their effort incentives are interdep…
Dynamic Correlation as an Incentive Device
Allen Vong
I introduce dynamic correlation as an incentive instrument to address moral hazard. A firm mediates interactions between a long-lived worker and short-lived clients. I show that op…
Reputational cheap talk: influentialness and welfare
Allen Vong
A sender communicates private information about a hidden state to a receiver who seeks to match his action to that state. The sender strives to appear informed at the receiver's ex…