-known commitment problem by introducing communication. Allowing the upstream firm to chat privately with each downstream firm reduces … total offered quantity from near the Cournot level (observed in the absence of communication) halfway toward the monopoly … bargaining advantage from open communication that all of the gains from monopolizing the market accrue to them. A simple …

experiments with written cheap-talk communication between players and we compare them to treatments without the possibility to … tacitly but that the number of firms does not significantly affect outcomes with communication. As a result, the payoff gain … from communication increases with the number of firms, at a decreasing rate. …

We report on an experiment using video technology to manipulate pre-play communication protocols in the lab and to … study purely social effects of communication on donations and discrimination between potential receivers. The experimental … the latter decides on her gifts. Through the use of three communication setups (none, audio, and audio-visual) we show and …

We report on an experiment using video technology to manipulate pre-play communication protocols in the lab and to … study purely social effects of communication on donations and discrimination between potential receivers. The experimental … the latter decides on her gifts. Through the use of three communication setups (none, audio, and audio-visual) we show and …

implicitly and explicitly), if at all, in such games. In our treatments without communication, players fail to cooperate and … essentially play the static Nash equilibrium (consistent with previous results). With communication, inefficient firms gain at the …

To explain why pre-play communication increases cooperation in games, one refers to a) strategic causes such as … efficient communication or reputation effects, and b) changes in the utilities due to social processes. Hitherto experimental … focus on the effects of communication processes. We clearly find social effects, but none of revealed anonymity or salient …