This paper investigates the effect of the countervailing forces within organizations of formal
systems that direct employees toward ethical acts and informal systems that direct …

Both experimental and empirical studies have shown that democratically imposing a policy
that encourages cooperation may increase its effectiveness by enhancing the voters' …

Authority, and the behavioral response to authority, is central to many important questions in
public economics, but has received insufficient attention from economists. In particular …

When do policies generate expressive or backlash effects? Recent economic models
suggest that where a proscribed activity is prevalent, permissive laws liberalize attitudes …

We experimentally investigate how impartial observers allocate money to agents whose
complementarity and substitutability determine the surplus that each group can achieve …

How do barely incentivized norms impact incentive-rich environments? We take social
enterprise legislation as a case in point. It establishes rules on behalf of constituencies …

Charisma is seen as a generally positive attribute for a leader to possess, yet many studies
give it a" mixed report card": finding it can have little or no effect, or worse a negative effect …

Leaders are often able to reach at least some followers at an emotional level. But many
followers could be rational and recognize a leader's emotional appeals are likely hiding vital …

Charismatic leaders are often desired. At the same time, experience, especially with
demagogues, as well as social science studies, raise doubts about such leaders. This paper …

We conduct a laboratory experiment in which we expose participants to situational social
norms of approval or disapproval of lying. Participants conform to the situational pressure …