Environmental variability and collective action: Experimental insights from an irrigation game

Leadership and information in a single-s

Leadership and information in a single-shot collective action game: An experimental study

✍ Mana Komai; Philip J. Grossman; Travis Deters 📂 Article 📅 2010 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 201 KB

We consider a leader-follower mechanism in a collective action game, which exhibits both free riding and coordination problems. Leaders can persuade group cooperation by making a costly commitment to a project. Followers can choose to follow their leaders. The project's return can be transparent to