Using experimental methods, this paper investigates the limits of communication and leadership in aiding group … coordination in a minimum effort game. Choosing the highest effort is the payoff dominant Nash equilibrium in this game, and … communication and leadership are expected to help in coordinating on such an equilibrium. We consider an environment in which the …

preventive wars when the power shift is smaller and when the rising state has the commitment power. Communication and repeated …

A popular empirical technique to measure norms uses coordination games to elicit what subjects in an experiment … that subjects use their normative expectations to solve the coordination game. However, subjects might use alternative …

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 would be beneficial and who is facing the same individual and mutual incentives and the same moral dilemma. We find … willingness to lie even when that potential accomplice is a stranger and communication is not possible. …

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

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. …

Experimental research has shown that ordinary people often perform remarkably well in solving coordination games that … involve no conflicts of interest. While most experiments in the past studied such coordination games among socially distant … anonymous players, here we study behaviour in a set of two player coordination games and compare the outcomes depending on …