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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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Pareto-superior outcomes in classic weak-link coordination games. We show that effects of cohesion are economically large …
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We study the effect on coordination in a minimum-effort game of a leader's gender depending on whether the leader is …
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and financial incentives affect productivity in tasks that require coordination among workers. We simulate assembly line …
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about how the coordination of hours among heterogenous coworkers affects pay, productivity and labor supply. In this paper … between wages, productivity and the degree of hours coordination - measured as the dispersion of hours - within firms. We then … coordination is associated with attenuated labor supply elasticity and spillovers on coworkers not directly affected by the tax …
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adverse labor market conditions. Unlike existing coordination-friction economies with fixed search intensity, the model can … are small and that search intensity is sufficiently procyclical. -- Matching function ; coordination frictions …
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Market productivity is often greater, and leisure and other household activities more enjoyable, when people perform them simultaneously. Beyond pointing out the positive externalities of synchronicity, economists have not attempted to identify exogenous causes that affect timing. We develop a...
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; coordination ; authority ; incentives ; strategic information transmission …
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than the marginal benefit for the community. This result stresses one source of coordination failure within the EMU. …
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Field evidence suggests that people belonging to the same group often behave similarly, i.e., behaviour exhibits social interaction effects. We conduct an experiment that avoids the identification problem present in the field. Our novel design feature is that each subject simultaneously is a...
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