The role of leaders in inducing and maintaining cooperation: The CC strategy

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Economic perspectives on leadership: Concepts, causality, and context in leadership research

“…One of the key economists studying leadership for over almost a decade is Michael Kosfeld. As he summarizes in his paper (Kosfeld, 2019), the central question in his work has been to analyze the role of leaders in human cooperation (Kosfeld & Rustagi, 2015;Kosfeld & Von Siemens, 2009;Kosfeld & Von Siemens, 2011;Rustagi, Engel, & Kosfeld, 2010). Clearly, this line of research takes a functional perspective on leadership: the leader is a facilitator of cooperation between group members.…”

Conditional cooperation: Type stability across games

“…2 This method is typically based on a set of 22 questions. 3 On the other hand, a simple sequential prisoner's dilemma (SPD hereafter), for which only three questions are sufficient, can be used for type classification as well (Miettinen, Kosfeld, Fehr, and Weibull, 2017;Kosfeld, 2019;Eichenseer and Moser, 2019). For a researcher, the question arises whether using the simpler method is sufficient for type classification as it may save time and reduce cognitive load for the participants.…”

“…See, for example,Fehr and Gächter (2000),Dohmen, Falk, Huffman, and Sunde (2009), andKosfeld (2019).2 This method is by now the most commonly used one and, for example, labeled as 'P-Experiment' inFischbacher and Gächter (2010).3 As a second-mover, subjects are typically asked to specify their contribution conditional on the other players' average contribution for integers in the interval[0, 20]. This results in 21 questions plus an unconditional contribution question for the role as first-mover.…”

Do Children Cooperate Conditionally? Adapting the Strategy Method for First-Graders

“…While the general literature discusses several factors affecting individual and collective cooperation 1 , methodological advancements in experimental economics carved out the pivotal role of preferences for cooperation (Bruhin et al forthcoming, Fehr and Leibbrandt 2011, Kosfeld 2017, Rustagi et al 2010. In particular, the literature shows that individual beliefs about what others do matter a great deal for actual behavior (Fischbacher and Gächter 2010, Fischbacher et al 2001, Herrmann and Thöni 2009, Kocher et al 2008, Kurzban and Houser 2005).…”