Strategic Disclosure: The Case of Business School Rankings
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Keywords
Voluntary Disclosure; Information Unraveling; Marketing; Countersignaling; Rankings;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CWA-2013-07-28 (Central and Western Asia)
- NEP-EDU-2013-07-28 (Education)
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