Leadership in Groups

Alan S Blinder (The Brookings Institution),John Morgan (University of Wales, Aberystwyth Institute of Education, University of London, UK)

Leadership in Groups
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bibliogov
Country
United States
Published
27 September 2012
Pages
38
ISBN
9781249560104

Leadership in Groups

Alan S Blinder (The Brookings Institution),John Morgan (University of Wales, Aberystwyth Institute of Education, University of London, UK)

This paper studies monetary policy decision making by committee, using an experimental methodology. In an earlier paper (Blinder and Morgan 2005), we found that groups not only outperformed individuals, but they also took no longer to reach decisions. We successfully replicate those results here. Next, we find little difference between the performances of fourperson and eight-person groups; the larger groups outperform the smaller groups by a very small (and often insignificant) margin. Third, and most surprisingly, we find no evidence of superior performance by groups that have designated leaders. Possible reasons for that strongly counterintuitive finding are discussed.

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