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Communication and efficiency in competitive coordination games
Cason, Timothy N.; Sheremeta, Roman M.; Zhang, Jingjing - In: Games and Economic Behavior 76 (2012) 1, pp. 26-43
Costless pre-play communication has been found to effectively facilitate coordination and enhance efficiency in games with Pareto-ranked equilibria. We report an experiment in which two groups compete in a weakest-link contest by expending costly efforts. Allowing intra-group communication leads...
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Behavioral spillovers in coordination games
Cason, Timothy N.; Savikhin, Anya C.; Sheremeta, Roman M. - In: European Economic Review 56 (2012) 2, pp. 233-245
Motivated by problems of coordination failure observed in weak-link games, we experimentally investigate behavioral spillovers for minimum- and median-effort coordination games. Subjects play these coordination games simultaneously and sequentially. The results show that successful coordination...
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Divided Loyalties or Conditional Cooperation? An experimental study of contributions to multiple public goods
McCarter, Matthew W.; Samak, Anya C.; Sheremeta, Roman M. - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2013
“divided loyalties” and “conditional cooperation” perspectives – that give opposite predictions about how individuals will …
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Communication and efficiency in competitive coordination games
Cason, Timothy N.; Sheremeta, Roman M.; Zhang, Jingjing - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2010
Costless pre-play communication has been found to effectively facilitate coordination and enhance efficiency in games with Pareto-ranked equilibria. We report an experiment in which two groups compete in a weakest-link contest by expending costly efforts. Allowing intra-group communication leads...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642476
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Divided Loyalists or Conditional Cooperators? Creating Consensus about Cooperation in Multiple Simultaneous Social Dilemmas
McCarter, Matthew W.; Samak, Anya C.; Sheremeta, Roman M. - Economic Science Institute (ESI), Argyros School of … - 2014
simultaneous social dilemmas. The divided-loyalty hypothesis, from organizational theory, predicts that cooperation will decline as … individuals experience multiple social dilemmas with different compared to the same group members. The conditional-cooperation … hypothesis, from behavioral economics, predicts that cooperation will increase as individuals experience multiple social dilemmas …
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