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We explain what reputation effects are, how they arise and the factors that limit or strengthen them.
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Cripps, M.W. (2018). Reputation. In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_2699
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