behavior in a coordination game with multiple equilibria and a public goods game, which has only one equilibrium in material … ; identification ; experiments ; coordination ; cooperation …

Friendship is commonly assumed to reduce strategic uncertainty and enhance tacit coordination. However, this assumption … has never been tested across two opposite poles of coordination involving either strategic complementarity or … substitutability. We had participants interact with friends or strangers in two classic coordination games: the stag hunt game, which …

coordination in a minimum effort game. Choosing the highest effort is the payoff dominant Nash equilibrium in this game, and … benefits of coordination are low compared to the cost of mis-coordination. In this environment, players converge to the most … effort is observed by the rest of the group. We study whether leadership can prevent coordination failure and whether …

In a coordination game such as the Battle of the Sexes, agents can condition their plays on external signals that can … are rare. Thus, even in a world of simple learning agents, coordination behavior can take on some surprising forms. …

coordination would be beneficial and who is facing the same individual and mutual incentives and the same moral dilemma. We find …