-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 …

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

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

We analyze communication about the social returns to investment in a public good. We model two agents who have private …, equilibrium communication features "denial" about the returns, depressing contributions. We illustrate the model in the context of …