We interpret the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), recently adopted by the EU as a mode of governance in the area of … social policy and other fields, as an imitative learning dynamics of the type considered in evolutionary game theory. The … coordinated policies. The main result is that the OMC allows policy coordination on a strict subset of the set of Nash equilibria …

private provision of public goods. We examine whether reciprocity can resolve the associated coordination problem. The …

higher payoffs in the game when the talk is one-way as the truthful reports facilitate desired coordination …

medium sized and large groups and show that neighborhood choice indeed leads to coordination on the fully efficient …

equilibrium into a coordination game with a set of Pareto-superior equilibria. Thresholds may therefore improve efficiency in the … voluntary provision of public goods. In our one-shot experiment, we find that coordination often fails and exogenously imposed …, because voting may facilitate coordination due to signaling and commitment effects. We find that voting does have signaling …

We experimentally study decision-making in a novel dynamic coordination game. The game captures features of a … network has higher payoffs, but the transition is slow and costly. Coordination is required to implement the transition while …