social interaction effects. Testing for such effects raises severe identification problems. We conduct an experiment that …

; identification ; experiments ; coordination ; cooperation … interaction effects. We conduct a laboratory experiment that avoids the identification problem present in the field and allows us … behavior in a coordination game with multiple equilibria and a public goods game, which has only one equilibrium in material …

interaction effects. We conduct an experiment that avoids the identification problem present in the field. Our novel design …

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 …

Motivated by problems of coordination failure observed in weak-link games, we experimentally investigate behavioral … spillovers for minimum- and median-effort coordination games. Subjects play these coordination games simultaneously and … sequentially. The results show that successful coordination on the Pareto optimal equilibrium in the median game influences …

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 …

laboratory binary choice minimum-effort coordination game, we randomly assign participants to three treatments: starting and … reinforcement learning, conditional cooperation, inertia, preference for consistency, and limited attention. Our findings point to a … simple, voluntary mechanism to promote successful coordination when the capacity to impose sanctions is limited. …

together rather than investing separately. We study the coordination and cooperation problems that might hinder successful … how much their partners invest. Moreover, subjects deal better with the coordination and cooperation problems as they gain … collaboration in a dynamic network setting. We develop an experiment in which coordination problems are mainly due to finding …