Leadership and Delegation of Authority

Cooper, David J.; Hamman, John

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_122-1

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“…31 There is a related literature on leading by example in public goods literature (for a summary see Cooper and Hamman, 2021). The mechanism that makes leading by example successful in public goods game is reciprocity; leaders contribute to the public good, anticipating that the other group members are conditional cooperators and will reciprocate by contributing themselves even though this is not an equilibrium strategy (Gächter, Nosenzo, Renner, and Sefton, 2012;Arbak and Villeval, 2013).…”

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Using Team Discussions to Understand Behavior in Indefinitely Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma Games

Cooper,

Kagel

2023

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

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We compare behavior of two person teams with individuals in indefinitely repeated prisoner dilemma games with perfect monitoring. Team discussions are used to understand the rationale underlying these choices and how these choices come about. There are three main findings: (i) Teams learned to cooperate faster than individuals, and cooperation was more stable for teams. (ii) Strategies identified from team dialogues differ from those identified by the Strategy Frequency Estimation Method. This reflects the improvisational nature of teams’ decision making. (iii) Increasing cooperation was primarily driven by teams unilaterally cooperating in the hope of inducing their opponent to cooperate. (JEL C72, C73, C92)

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