Within-group communication in competitive coordination games has been shown to increase competition between groups and … using a laboratory experiment. The experiment shows that although asymmetric communication is not as harmful as symmetric … communication, it leads to more aggressive competition and lower efficiency relative to the case when neither group can communicate …

competition and lower efficiency. We report an experiment in which two groups compete in a weakest-link contest by expending … both groups leads to even more aggressive competition and the lowest payoffs to both groups. Despite such a “harmful …