Cason, Timothy N.; Sheremeta, Roman M.; Zhang, Jingjing - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2015
Costless pre-play communication has been shown to effectively facilitate within-group coordination. However, in … costly efforts. We find that allowing within-group communication makes groups compete more aggressively. When only one group …. However, the communicating group earns payoffs that are not different from the baseline contest without any communication …