Within-group communication in competitive coordination games has been shown to increase competition between groups and …

Motivated by problems of coordination failure observed in weak-link games, we experimentally investigate behavioral … spillovers for order-statistic coordination games. Subjects play the minimum- and median-effort coordination games simultaneously …

Costless pre-play communication has been found to effectively facilitate coordination and enhance efficiency in games … costly efforts. Allowing intra-group communication leads to more aggressive competition and greater coordination than control … experimental findings from public goods and other coordination games, where communication always enhances efficiency and often …