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 … lower efficiency. This study further explores potentially harmful effects of communication, by addressing the questions of …

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 …

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 …