choice affects coordination. In a fixed interaction treatment, a vast majority of subjects quickly coordinates on the …

at coordinating action by followers. Two experiments using coordination games investigate whether female leaders are less …

We study the role of inter-group differences in the emergence of conflict. In our setting, two groups compete for the …, that the opposition can either accept, or reject and wage conflict. Expropriating a large share of resources increases … of conflict. In equilibrium, allocations are non-monotonic in the cost of mobility. Moreover, limited commitment with …

conflict and more intense fighting. …

-contractible up-front investments to improve their bargaining position and gain advantage for possible future conflict. Bargaining is … efficient ex post, but we show that a player may prefer Conflict ex ante if there are sufficient asymmetries in strength. There … are two sources of this finding. First, up-front investments are more dissimilar between players under Conflict, and they …

examines two examples, both of which involve the theory of coordination games: 1) the location of markets inside EverQuest, and … 2) the selection of battlefields inside Dark Age of Camelot. Coordination game theory is quite important to a number of …