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We study how upward communication - from workers to managers - about individual efforts affects the effectiveness of …
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We study the impact of communication on behavior in a two-stage coordination game with asymmetric payoffs. We test … sustain coordination over time and alleviate the inequality induced by the asymmetry of payoffs. Third, communication …
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Human communication in organizations often involves a large amount of gossiping about others. Here we study in an …
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networks, such coordination may be very difficult to achieve and may depend on the communication technology and the network … structure. We examine how pre-play communication and clustering within networks affect coordination in a challenging … outcome in our game, but restricted communication (where subjects can only indicate their intended action) is almost entirely …
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Case studies of cartels and recent theory suggest that repeated communication is key for stable cooperation in … environments where signals about others' actions are noisy. However, empirically the exact role of communication is not well … understood. We study cooperation under different monitoring and communication structures in the laboratory. Under all monitoring …
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We report results from a sender-receiver deception game, which tests whether an individual's decision to deceive is influenced by a concern for relative standing in a reference group. The sender ranks six possible outcomes, each specifying a payoff for him and the receiver. A message is then...
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We study the choice of a principal to either delegate a decision to a group of careerist experts, or to consult them individually and keep the decision-making power. Our model predicts a trade-off between information acquisition and information aggregation. On the one hand, the expected benefit...
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When groups face difficult problems, the voice of experts may be lost in the noise of others' contributions. We present results from a 'naturally noisy' setting, a large first-year undergraduate class, in which the 'expert's voice is lost' to such a degree that it is in fact optimal for all...
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to the employer before a contract is offered (ex ante communication) and in which the employer can send negative or … positive feedback to the worker after the worker has chosen effort (ex post communication). The results indicate that feedback …
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We study communication in committees selecting one of two alternatives when consensus is required and agents have … reached. We vary the amount of feedback and the communication protocol available to voters: complete secrecy about the pattern … of support; feedback about this support; public communication; and within-group communication. The feedback no-communication …
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