Leadership in a Public Goods Experiment with Permanent and Temporary Members

Author:

Angelova, Vera (TU Berlin)
Güth, Werner (MPI for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn)
Kocher, Martin G. (University of Vienna)

Abstract:

We experimentally analyze leading by example in a public goods game with two permanent and two temporary group members. Our results show that leadership when permanent and temporary members interact leads to lower contributions than interaction without leadership.

Keywords:

cooperation; leadership; social dilemma; public goods provision; experiment

JEL-Classification:

C91; D03; D64

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