Individual leaders have been central to the transformation of political institutions, organizations and many instances … of social and economic reform. Why are some leaders able to take advantage of opportunities to successfully catalyze …

We examine whether economic and military competence of political leaders affect their duration in office. We introduce …

We study whether national leaders' foreign education influences their foreign policy, measured by voting behavior at … abroad - makes leaders with foreign education more likely to vote with their host country. At the same time, such leaders … voting coincidence. To test this theory we make use of data on the educational background of 831 leaders and the voting …

Can political leaders change constituents' beliefs? If so, is it rhetoric, identity, or the interaction of the two that … messages. Our findings show that both leader messages and sources matter. Holding messages fixed, leaders persuade when …

In this paper we model the interaction between leaders, their followers and crowd followers in a coordination game with … risk dominant actions in the population. The existence of leaders and their followers, plus the local interaction, which … followership shows that leader followership can also be locally stable around Pareto dominant leaders. The paper answers the …

We study whether leaders influence the unethical conduct of followers. To avoid selection issues present in natural … treatment, two instruments through which leaders can influence follower conduct-prominent statements to the group and the … allocation of monetary incentives. In general, the presence of active group leaders gives rise to significantly more dishonest …

ethics that are behind the economic analysis of disasters. Given this absence, we believe that a better understanding of the … ways in which the discipline approaches the topic of disasters and its ethics is gained not by examining the multitude of …