This paper studies the efficiency of decentralized leadership in federations where selfish regional governments provide …. Without residential mobility, unlimited decentralized leadership is efficient only if the center implements redistributive … leadership is efficient if the center adopts redistributive interregional income and earmarked policies and there is a common …

I study a sequential-move public goods game based on the notion that leadership comes with an obligation; conscientious … leadership. Provision by the leader of an amount of the public good below a minimum imposes a psychological cost on the follower … conscientious leadership. I find that, under certain conditions, the follower's equilibrium contribution is an increasing or non …

in the foreign policy alignment between a donor and a recipient country following leadership changes induce reallocation … policy position. Thus, leadership turnover in recipient and donor countries makes otherwise inconsequential deviations in …

leader heterogeneity in the selectorate theory of Bueno de Mesquita et al. (2003) and derive the hypothesis that in the …