activities. An efficient communication protocol grants complete information payoffs to all organization members, thereby …Organizations design their communication structures to improve decision-making while limiting wasteful influence … overcoming asymmetric information problems at no cost. This paper characterizes efficient protocols assuming that: (i) some …

of their private information. Hence, it is robust in the sense that it is not affected by errors in specifying these …

We study communication in a two-player coordination game with Pareto-ranked equilibria. Prior research demonstrates … that efficient coordination is difficult without communication but obtains regularly with (mandatory) costless pre …-play messages. In a laboratory experiment, we modify communication by making the sending of messages optional and costly. Even small …

: communication, and punishment (allowing subjects to engage in costly reductions of one another’s earnings after learning of their … contribution decisions). We find that communication increases contributions more than punishment, and, taking into account the cost … of punishment, only communication significantly increases subjects’ earnings and thus efficiency. We study three forms of …

: communication, and punishment (allowing subjects to engage in costly reductions of one another’s earnings after learning of their … contribution decisions). We find that communication increases contributions more than punishment, and, taking into account the cost … of punishment, only communication significantly increases subjects’ earnings and thus efficiency. We study three forms of …

-play communication: numerical (tabular) only, and verbal and numerical. We find that either kind of pre-play communication increases … trusting, trustworthiness, or both, in inter-subject comparisons, but that the inclusions of verbal communication generates …

motives, the roles and the consequences of the Jesuits as agents of information regarding China affected the European … and transmission of information. It finds that economic progress and political consolidation in Europe did result in a …

We develop a new theory of international capital flows based on dispersed in-formation across individual investors …-standing asset price behavior. We introduce information dispersion into an openeconomy dynamic general equilibrium portfolio choice … model, and emphasize twoimplications for capital flows that are speci…c to the presence of dispersed infor-mation. First …