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

perceive a fundamental parameter with noise. We focus on 2 x 2 coordination games, which generate multiple equilibria when …

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

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

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 …

provision of public goods and with it the welfare of all countries can be enhanced via tax coordination. Based on the standard … Zodrow-Mieszkowski-Wilson tax-competition model this paper analyses the conditions under which tax coordination by a group of …

coordination is difficult without a communication option but obtains regularly with mandatory costless pre-play messages. We find … coordination can occur with similar frequency as under costless communication. These findings can be accounted for by …