We study costless pre-play communication of intentions among inexperienced players. Using the level-k model of strategic thinking to describe players' beliefs, we fully characterize the effects of pre-play communication in symmetric 2×2 games. One-way communication weakly increases coordination...

In a large family of solution concepts for boundedly rational players - allowing players to be imperfect optimizers, but requiring that "better" responses are chosen with probabilities at least as high as those of "worse" responses - most of Thompson's "inessential" transformations for the...