Employment contracts give a principal the authority to decide flexibly which task his agent should execute. However … preferences in combination with reputation opportunities keep principals from abusing their power, leading to the widespread … behavioral forces shape an important transaction cost of integration – the abuse of authority – and by providing an empirical …

competitive auction to determine the terms of trade than if she uses her authority to dictate the same terms directly. Our results …

directly measure religious organizations’ power to shape human decision making. We employ an objective measure of voters …

We integrate individual power in groups into general equilibrium models. The relationship between group formation …, resource allocation, and the power of specific individuals or particular sociological groups is investigated. We introduce, via … an illustrative example, three appealing concepts of power and show that there is no monotonic relationship between these …

of power. In the second part, we demonstrate that reported subjective well-being of the population is much higher in …

evaluated. Internal impact affects the distribution of power among the member states and external impact affects power relations …

We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior. This link is interesting because field …

environments, we use a laboratory experiment in which we form groups and assign leadership roles at random. We study an environment …

We study the role of information exchange, leadership and coordination in team or partnership structures. For this …