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 …

setting in which there is no conflict in material interests: a proposer, holding the role of residual claimant, chooses the … harms the proposer. Notwithstanding, maximal claims by proposers are predominant for all game types. This generates conflict …

in that person's group. Group reciprocity may be a key motivation behind intergroup conflict. We investigated group …

observe surprisingly high levels of cooperation and altruism within groups in conflict situations such as civil wars. We …

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. …

Koukoumelis et al. (2010, 2012) have shown that one-way communication enhances contributions to public goods. We … investigate the effectiveness of one-way communication, when the benefits from the public good are asymmetric and the sender of a … message is the main beneficiary of cooperation. Our results show that, in the absence of communication opportunities …