Communication has been regarded as one of the most effective devices in promoting team cooperation. But asymmetric … excluding one member from team communication hurts team cooperation: the communicating partners collude in profit allocation … communication sometimes breeds collusion and is detrimental to team efficiency. Here, we present experimental evidence showing that …

communication, we also find systematic deviations from optimal behavior in how the communicated information is used. Specifically …

This paper compares the effects of two leadership styles: leading by pre-game communication and leading by example … using an iterated voluntary contribution game. We find that pre-game communication increases the level of individual …-game communication. We also find that the content of pre-game communication has a higher impact on individual decisions than the ex post …

We study how upward communication - from workers to managers - about individual efforts affects the effectiveness of … workers regularly overstate their own contribution to the joint team output. Misreporting seems to spread distrust within the … team of workers, as well as between managers and workers. This manifests itself in managers being less generous with …