Costless pre-play communication has been found to effectively facilitate coordination and enhance efficiency by … aggressive competition and greater coordination, but also results in substantially lower payoffs than a control treatment without … communication. Our experiment thus provides evidence that communication can reduce efficiency in competitive coordination games …

This paper examines whether and how communication can help groups solve coordination and free-rider problems when they … where we remove coordination and free-riding incentives by having group members reach a unanimous group decision on how much …