total cost incurred by all manufacturers. This coordination reduces the total cost but may result in higher costs for a …-sharing schemes that make coordination a better alternative for all parties. The highlight of our experiments is that the costs of the …

second period. We also study the implications of such arrangements between a buyer and a supplier for coordination of the … channel. We show that, in general, channel coordination can be achieved only if we allow the exercise price to be piecewise … appropriate prices for channel coordination which, however, violate the individual rationality constraint for the supplier …

coordination only under very limiting conditions. …

We use experiments to study coordination in games with incomplete information. In the games, one player knows the … form a stag-hunt there are two Pareto ranked pure strategy equilibria. We ask whether cheap talk aids coordination on the …

small mistakes, achieving coordination is inevitable and independent of the speed at which aspirations evolve. …