Much of the economics of organization deals with the formal rights and rules that govern
organizations, both in normative and positive analyses. Who should have legal claim to what …

We investigate the link between leadership, beliefs and pro-social behavior in social
dilemmas. This link is interesting because field evidence suggests that people's behavior in …

It is not only the great number of papers written on environment economics that make it
worth dealing with this special branch of experimental research, but the environmental …

This paper reports an experiment examining the effect of social norms on pro-social
behavior. We test two predictions derived from work in psychology regarding the influence of …

We examine the effects of leading by example in voluntary contribution experiments.
Leadership is implemented by letting one group member contribute to the public good …

We report experimental results on the effect of leadership in a voluntary contribution game.
Consistent with recent theories we find that leading-by-example increases contributions and …

The focus for the Centre is research into individual and strategic decision-making using a
combination of theoretical and experimental methods. On the theory side, members of the …

We examine the characteristics of effective leaders in a simple leader‐follower voluntary
contributions game. We focus on two factors: the individual's cooperativeness and the …

We study the effects of leadership on the private provision of a public good when group
members are heterogeneously endowed. Leadership is implemented as a sequential public …

Cooperative behavior is a hallmark of the primate order. Cooperation is therefore an area of
intensive theoretical research in biology, anthropology, political sciences and economics, as …