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Coordination and cooperation problems in network good production

Knigge, Antonie; Buskens, Vincent Willem - In: Games 1 (2010) 3, pp. 357-380

together rather than investing separately. We study the coordination and cooperation problems that might hinder successful … collaboration in a dynamic network setting. We develop an experiment in which coordination problems are mainly due to finding … collaborate. The results show that as costs of forming links increase, groups succeed less often in solving the coordination …

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Coordination, differentiation and fairness in a population of cooperating agents

Do, Anne-ly; Rudolf, Lars; Gross, Thilo - In: Games 3 (2012) 1, pp. 30-40

This paper addresses the role of affect and emotions in shaping the behavior of responders in the ultimatum game. A huge amount of research shows that players do not behave in an economically rational way in the ultimatum game, and emotional mechanisms have been proposed as a possible...

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Speech is silver, silence is golden

Andersson, Ola; Holm, Hakan J. - In: Games 4 (2013) 3, pp. 497-507

This paper experimentally investigates free-riding behavior on communication cost in a coordination game and finds …

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Competing conventions with costly information acquisition

Rozzi, Roberto - In: Games 12 (2021) 3, pp. 1-29

We consider an evolutionary model of social coordination in a 2 × 2 game where two groups of players prefer to … the cost favor coordination. Indeed, when the cost is low, in inside-group interactions, players always coordinate on …

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Backup agreement as a coordination mechanism in a decentralized fruit chain in a developing country

Rojas Palacios, Margy Nathalia; Peña Orozco, Diego León; … - In: Games 13 (2022) 3, pp. 1-18

presenting an overview of the literature that shows various coordination mechanisms but no backup agreement proposals for supply … chain coordination, this paper develops a decentralized three-echelon supply chain facing stochastic customer demand and … includes the backup agreement as a coordination mechanism to guarantee a balanced relationship between the chain members. The …

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Achieving perfect coordination amongst agents in the co-action minority game

Rajpal, Hardik; Dhar, Deepak - In: Games 9 (2018) 2/27, pp. 1-13

We discuss the strategy that rational agents can use to maximize their expected long-term payoff in the co-action minority game. We argue that the agents will try to get into a cyclic state, where each of the (2N+1) agents wins exactly N times in any continuous stretch of (2N+1) days. We propose...

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Achieving perfect coordination amongst agents in the co-action minority game

Rajpal, Hardik; Dhar, Deepak - In: Games 9 (2018) 2, pp. 1-13

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Against all odds: Tentative steps toward efficient information sharing in groups

Schlangenotto, Darius; Schnedler, Wendelin; Vadovič, … - In: Games 11 (2020) 3, pp. 1-24

When groups face difficult problems, the voices 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 was "lost" to such a degree that bringing forward even more...

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Collaboration and gender focality in stag hunt bargaining

Guarin, Geraldine; Babin, J. Jobu - In: Games 12 (2021) 2, pp. 1-7

classic coordination problem. This paper explores whether knowing a co-worker's gender affects coordination on the mutually … efficient coordination regardless of the knowledge. Males, when knowingly paired with another male, tend to collaborate less …

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Competing conventions with costly information acquisition

Rozzi, Roberto - In: Games 12 (2021) 3, pp. 1-29

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