coordination by playing the recommended strategies. However, coordination and following recommendations vary significantly among …

that coordination and following recommendations vary significantly among our treatments. We explain these differences by …

coordination and distribution of coordinated outcomes across networks. But increasing the communication length improves both … efficiency an equity of coordination. In all treatments, coordination is mostly explained by convergence in communication. We …We study experimentally how the network structure and length of pre-play communication affect behavior and outcome in a …

We consider a cheap-talk setting that mimics the situation where an incumbent firm the sender is endowed with … achieved without any communication. The reason is that receivers fail to optimally translate the information received in their …

.e., a turnaround. We compare communication from leaders to incentive increases and also compare the effectiveness of … randomly selected and elected leaders. While all interventions yield shifts to more efficient equilibria, communication from …

in a cheap-talk game. We find evidence of the "disciplining" effect of public communication as compared to private … strategic thinking when communication is public. Using the level-k model, we exploit the within subject design to show how … individuals decrease their level-k in public communication. Surprisingly, we find that individuals become more sophisticated when …

When truth conflicts with efficiency, can verbal communication destroy efficiency? Or are lies or vagueness used to … prisoners’ dilemma. Without verbal communication, efficiency is achieved, with contributions for high or intermediate values …. We show experimentally that, when communication about the value must be precise, the leader frequently lies, preserving …

other hand the decision makers rely too much on the received information. Moreover, communication as well as payoffs … communication is less biased. In all treatments, however, the messages are more precise than theoretically predicted. …

.e., a turnaround. We compare communication from leaders to incentive increases and also compare the effectiveness of … randomly selected and elected leaders. While all interventions yield shifts to more efficient equilibria, communication from …