Buechel, Berno; Klößner, Stefan; Lochmüller, Martin; … - 2018
We investigate how the selection process of a leader affects team performance with respect to social learning. We use a … lab experiment in which an incentivized guessing task is repeated in a star network with the leader at the center. Leader … models of social learning to investigate the micro-level mechanisms. We find that overconfidence and conservatism contribute …