and online experiment to provide the first evidence for the persistent power of communication. Even when 3 weeks pass … between messages and actual choices, communication raises cooperation, trust, and trustworthiness by about 50 percent. Lags …

We study the intergenerational accumulation of knowledge in an infinite-horizon model of communication. Each in a … equilibria do not exist. This is so both in the case of private communication in which each player only hears the message of his … immediate predecessor, and in the case of public communication, in which each player hears the message of all previous players …

and how unmediated communication and mediation reduce the ex ante probability of conflict, in a simple game where conflict … is due to asymmetric information. Unmediated communication helps reducing the chance of conflict as it allows conflicting … communication when the intensity of conflict is high, or when asymmetric information is large. The mediator improves upon unmediated …