leadership, and (iii) whether leaders contributing last, instead of first, also increase contributions. The experimental results …We study the effects of leadership in the provision of public goods by examining (i) the relative importance of reward … and punishment as leadership devices, (ii) whether endogenous leadership is more efficient than exogenously enforced …

experimentally why, and under which conditions, leaders resort to such decisions. In our experiment, teams are presented with several … opportunity either to confirm or to alter the majority decision. We find that leaders overrule their teams in 35% of cases and … such decisions are primarily driven by divergent preferences of leaders and the other team members. Male, younger and more …