Konferenzbeitrag

Leadership in a Dynamic Public Goods Game: An Experimental Study

We examine how leadership affects a dynamic public goods game. Using a setting where cooperation gains can be reinvested, our findings suggest that leadership has a positive impact on final wealth. Somewhat surprisingly, leadership also has a positive impact on reducing inequality within groups as measured by the Gini index. Based on a sequential prisoner's dilemma, we elicit types for conditional cooperation. Our results indicate that groups work best when led by cooperatively inclined individuals. Furthermore, early contributions by the leader are crucial and yield a high return.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2018: Digitale Wirtschaft - Session: Public Goods and Public Economics ; No. B19-V1

Classification
Wirtschaft
Noncooperative Games
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Group Behavior
Public Goods
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Noncooperative Games
Design of Experiments: Laboratory, Group Behavior
Public Goods
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Subject
Leadership
Public Goods Game
Conditional Cooperation
Inequality
Growth
Lab Experiment

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Eichenseer, Michael
Moser, Johannes
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
(where)
Kiel, Hamburg
(when)
2018

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  • Konferenzbeitrag

Associated

  • Eichenseer, Michael
  • Moser, Johannes
  • ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft

Time of origin

  • 2018

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