Arbeitspapier

Leaders as Role Models for the Voluntary Provision of Public Goods

We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people's behavior in domains like charitable giving, tax evasion, corporate culture and corruption is influenced by leaders (CEOs, politicians) and beliefs about others' behavior. Our framework is an experimental public goods game with a leader. We find that leaders strongly shape their followers' initial beliefs and contributions. In later rounds, followers put more weight on other followers' past behavior than on the leader's current action. This creates a path dependency the leader can hardly correct. We discuss the implications for understanding belief effects in naturally occurring situations.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 8580

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Noncooperative Games
Design of Experiments: General
Public Goods
Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
Thema
leadership
beliefs
experiments
public goods
path dependency
public policy
management

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Gächter, Simon
Renner, Elke
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2014

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Gächter, Simon
  • Renner, Elke
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2014

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