information asymmetry. The primary objective is to question whether endogenous leadership better enables coordination. A secondary … results are provided. We find that in theory leadership should allow coordination, whether or not preferences are common … knowledge. In practice we found that leadership did enable coordination but information about others preferences also helped …

We investigate, experimentally, the effects of leadership in a four player weak-link game. A weak-link game is a … leadership by example - in the form of one player acting publicly before the rest of the group - can lead to increased … results suggest that leadership has no effect on initial behavior; the first time that they play the game participants behave …

information asymmetry. The primary objective is to question whether endogenous leadership better enables coordination. A secondary … results are provided. We find that in theory leadership should allow coordination, whether or not preferences are common … knowledge. In practice we found that leadership did enable coordination but information about others preferences also helped …