among three players. The baseline treatment with no communication shows that the first and second players send significant … amounts and the third player reciprocates. Allowing insider communication between the second and the third players increases … cooperation between these two. Interestingly, there is an external effect of insider communication: the first player who is …

Within-group communication in competitive coordination games has been shown to increase competition between groups and … lower efficiency. This study further explores potentially harmful effects of communication, by addressing the questions of … (i) asymmetric communication and (ii) the endogenous emergence of communication. Our theoretical analysis provides …

Costless pre-play communication has been shown to effectively facilitate within-group coordination. However, in … competitive coordination games, such as rent-seeking contests, better within-group coordination leads to more aggressive … costly efforts. We find that allowing within-group communication makes groups compete more aggressively. When only one group …

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 …