We design a laboratory experiment to study behavior in a multidivisional organization facing a trade-off between … communication, we also find systematic deviations from optimal behavior in how the communicated information is used. Specifically … than predicted coordination in centralized organizations. We show that the observed deviations disappear when uncertainty …

coordination when there is strategic uncertainty. We compare the choices made by experimental subjects in a minimum effort game. In … coordination between group members, both leading to lower payoffs. However, these results depend strongly on the group's gender …

at coordinating followers' actions. Two experiments using coordination games investigate whether female leaders are less … successful than males in persuading followers to coordinate on efficient equilibria. In these settings, successful coordination …

) private information with sequential, two-way communication. In the first stage, the buyer communicates her private preferences …

In symmetric binary-choice coordination games, the global-game selection (GGS) has been proven to predict a high … the fraction of players choosing either action. This paper presents an experiment on asymmetric games in which the GGS …

motive that most closely aligns with their personal interest. We test this hypothesis using a laboratory experiment that …