We examine whether economic and military competence of political leaders affect their duration in office. We introduce …

Research on leadership in economics has developed in parallel to the literature in management and psychology and links … between the fields have been sparse. Whereas modern leadership scholars mostly focus on transformational and related … leadership styles, economists have mainly emphasized the role of contracts, control rights, and incentives. We argue that both …

In this paper we model the interaction between leaders, their followers and crowd followers in a coordination game with … risk dominant actions in the population. The existence of leaders and their followers, plus the local interaction, which … followership shows that leader followership can also be locally stable around Pareto dominant leaders. The paper answers the …

Curricula impart knowledge, instill values, and shape collective memory. Despite growing public funding for religious …

. We calculate efficiency scores for more than 4,800 universities and other research-focused institutions worldwide …

universities. Besides the amount of research grants and the absolute number of publications, the number of publications belonging …

Individual leaders have been central to the transformation of political institutions, organizations and many instances … of social and economic reform. Why are some leaders able to take advantage of opportunities to successfully catalyze … degree of effective leadership and dramatically alter the prospects for change. The framework also naturally allows us to …

We study whether national leaders' foreign education influences their foreign policy, measured by voting behavior at … abroad - makes leaders with foreign education more likely to vote with their host country. At the same time, such leaders … voting coincidence. To test this theory we make use of data on the educational background of 831 leaders and the voting …