American Economic Journal:
Microeconomics
ISSN 1945-7669 (Print) | ISSN 1945-7685 (Online)
Experimenting with Career Concerns
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
vol. 12,
no. 1, February 2020
(pp. 260–88)
Abstract
A manager who learns privately about a project over time may want to delay quitting it if recognizing failure/lack of success hurts his reputation. In the banking industry, managers may want to roll over bad loans. How do distortions depend on expected project quality? What are the effects of releasing public information about quality? A key feature of banks is that managers learn about project quality from bad news, i.e., a default. We show that in such an environment, distortions tend to increase with expected quality and imperfect information about quality. Results differ if managers instead learn from good news.Citation
Halac, Marina, and Ilan Kremer. 2020. "Experimenting with Career Concerns." American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 12 (1): 260–88. DOI: 10.1257/mic.20170411Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- D82 Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
- D83 Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
- G21 Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages