newcomers on a group’s ability to coordinate efficiently. Participants play a coordination game in a four-person group for the …

Motivated by problems of coordination failure observed in weak-link games, we experimentally investigate behavioral … spillovers for minimum- and median-effort coordination games. Subjects play these coordination games simultaneously and … sequentially. The results show that successful coordination on the Pareto optimal equilibrium in the median game influences …

, however the sender can improve communication, at a cost, by increasing the complexity or elaborateness of the message. As is … standard in the communication literature, the sender learns the state of the world then sends a message to the receiver. The … expected, we find that larger communication costs are associated with worse outcomes for both sender and receiver. Consistent …

This paper reports recent findings on the effects of cheap talk communication on behavior. It exemplifies how different … communication channels influence decisions in various games and information environments and addresses possible consequences for the …

among three players. The baseline treatment with no communication shows that the first and second players send significant … amounts and the third player reciprocates. Allowing insider communication between the second and the third players increases … cooperation between these two. Interestingly, there is an external effect of insider communication: the first player who is …