Objective
Most major economic, political, and creative outcomes arise from collective decisions rather than individual actions. Committees, research teams, firms, and artistic collaborations all produce outcomes that observers must interpret when assigning credit and blame to individual participants. This proposal investigates how reputations are built within such groups — and how systematic misperceptions in this collective inference problem shape incentives, power, and efficiency.
The project combines theory and experiments to analyze how audiences’ beliefs about group decision rules influence behavior within and across teams. Section 1 develops a model of group communication in which actual versus perceived power over group decisions jointly determine reputational outcomes, effort incentives, and project selection. Section 2 tests these mechanisms experimentally, documenting systematic biases in how collective decisions are interpreted and how informal deliberation distorts formal rules. Section 3 extends the analysis to group formation, showing how reputational externalities inherent to biases in the collective inference problem can endogenously generate inefficient collaboration patterns and talent allocation.
Together, these studies build a unified theory of how reputational dynamics operate in collective environments, showing how misperceptions of power and responsibility shape real outcomes in organizations, and offering a blueprint for designing institutions that foster efficient, accountable collaboration.
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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(opens in new window) ERC-2026-STG
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WC2A 2AE London
United Kingdom
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