Numerous studies suggest that communication may be a universal means to mitigate collective action problems. In this … study, we challenge this view and show that the communication structure crucially determines whether communication mitigates … or intensifies the problem of collective action. We observe the effect of different communication structures on …

other hand the decision makers rely too much on the received information. Moreover, communication as well as payoffs … communication is less biased. In all treatments, however, the messages are more precise than theoretically predicted. …

players. A third treatment has subjects play with neither communication nor advice. We find that groups that engage in peer … communication achieve much lower levels of contribution to the public good than do groups that receive advice. We attribute this … finding in part to the fact that some subjects in the communication treatment opted to make no announcement during the …

, with and without communication, can help coordinate subordinates' collective resistance to a ???divide …??? communication in the one-shot game. Nevertheless, we find that communication (in the one-shot game) is at least as effective as … repetition (with no communication) in reducing the transgression rate. Moreover, communication is better than repetition in …

-binding communication among responders can help coordinate their collective resistance against a leader who transgresses against them …. Contrary to the predictions of analysis based on purely self-regarding preferences, we find that non-binding communication …, we find that the incidence of no transgression increases from 7 percent with no communication up to 25-37 percent …