Silver Signals: Twenty-Five Years of Screening and Signaling

By John G. Riley. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research

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The Signaling Role of Promotions: Further Theory and Empirical Evidence (2012, methodology): “…about any specific worker leaks out from the worker’s current employer but only in a limited way.28 B) Education as a Labor-Market Signal There is an extensive literature, both theoretical and empirical, that explores the role of education as a labor-market signal (see Riley (2001) for a survey).”
The Signaling Value of a High School Diploma (2014, background): “Some (e.g., Riley (2001)) have also criticized these regression-based approaches for not explaining what drives variation in credential status among workers who appear similar to firms (i.e., what drives variation in conditional on ).”
Signaling the Strategic Value of Knowledge (2004, methodology): “Although there are a wide variety of potential signals firms can use, signaling research (e.g.,Riley, 2001) has established third-party affiliation, capital structure, and dividend policy as some of the most effective signals of a firm’s knowledge endowment.”
The effect of certification with the ISO 9000 Quality Management Standard: A signaling approach (2006, background): “Despite the prevalence and importance of management standards such as ISO 9000, they remain relatively understudied.”
A Signaling Perspective on Employment-Based Reentry Programming Training Completion as a Desistance Signal (2012, neutral): “Third, there is no one equilibrium signal cost in this case (but see Riley, 2001 ).”
The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition (2008, background): “As a recent survey by Riley (2001) makes clear, this concept is now an important feature of modern approaches to development economics, financial economics, industrial organization, international economics, labour economics, and many other areas.”
Auditor size and audit pricing: evidence from small audit firms (2004, background): “When buyers cannot observe product quality prior to the purchase, the reputation of the supplier provides a mechanism that signals superior quality (e.g. Shapiro, 1983; Riley, 2001).”
Adverse Selection and M&A Design: The Roles of Alliances and Ipos (2008, neutral): “(e.g., Stiglitz, 2000; Riley, 2001; Garmaise and Moskowitz, 2004) to the domain of M&As in”
Why do manufacturing facilities introduce environmental management systems? Improving and/or signaling performance ☆ (2009, background): “In the remainder of this section, we discuss the 1 For a review of the literature on signaling see Riley (2001) .”
Information Manipulation, Coordination and Regime Change (2013, neutral): “20For an extended discussion see Spence (1974), or for a more recent survey Riley (2001).”
The role of corporate sustainability performance for economic performance: A firm-level analysis of moderation effects (2010, background): “…other interested stakeholders about the environmental quality and social benefits of products and processes through information dissemination, labelling and other means of signalling increasingly becomes important for firms to realize economic benefits (Boer, 2003; Karl & Orwat, 1999; Riley, 2001).”