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 …

This article analyzes under which conditions a manager can motivate a junior worker by verbal communication, and … explains why communication is often tied up with organizational choices as job enlargement and collaboration. Our model has two …

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. …

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 …

send more informative messages under communication than predicted by the pure strategy equilibria. This finding neither … mixed strategy equilibrium under communication, which strictly outperforms optimal restricted delegation and is relatively …

-binding price requests. Using a laboratory experiment, we examine how competition moderates the way such cheap-talk communication … granularity effects of cheap-talk communication on negotiation outcomes. Our results show that most of these effects survive with …

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 …

We experimentally investigate strategic communication about the impact of prosocial actions, which is central to policy … communication in moral domains, and help understand the fraught nature of political discussions about social impact. …