This paper examines whether and how cheap talk communication can facilitate within-group coordination when two unequal … improves coordination. To measure how much miscoordination remains, we employ a control treatment where miscoordination is …

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

Costless pre-play communication has been found to effectively facilitate coordination and enhance efficiency by … aggressive competition and greater coordination, but also results in substantially lower payoffs than a control treatment without … communication. Our experiment thus provides evidence that communication can reduce efficiency in competitive coordination games …

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 …

This paper examines whether and how communication can help groups solve coordination and free-rider problems when they … where we remove coordination and free-riding incentives by having group members reach a unanimous group decision on how much …