how communication mitigates this free-riding problem in an investment-timing game. In our baseline investment-timing game …. If more investors invest at the same time, they share the costs. In the communication treatment, subjects can freely … communicate before choosing the investment time. We find that in groups of two players, communication increases cooperation and …

cheap-talk communication with evaluators. We use the chat among committee members to learn about, e.g., their beliefs about …

Many everyday activities are habitual. Among the most common human activities is communication. If people primarily … experimental evidence that habits affect strategic communication in an unfamiliar environment. Additionally, we contrast two …

others creating socially suboptimal outcomes. We investigate if and how communication mitigates the strategic delay in … introducing communication into this setting reduces strategic delay. We implement our model in a laboratory experiment utilizing a … 2x2 design, where we vary the availability of communication and the number of agents. We find that communication …

which they usually take different positions. Two examples of such structures are communication networks and hierarchies. In … feasible sets in communication networks and compare them with feasible sets arising from hierarchies. …

. Two well-known network structures are hierarchies and communication networks. We give an overview of the most common … models of communication and hierarchy restrictions in cooperative games, compare different network structures with each other … and discuss network structures that combine communication as well as hierarchical features. Throughout the survey, we …

auction is beneficial to the buyer compared to no communication and ex-ante communication. In a setting where the buyer and … the winning supplier have misaligned interests regarding the terms, the buyer benefits from ex-ante communication relative … to no communication and ex-post communication. Our experimental data provide strong evidence for the predictions in the …

are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …