Precedents can facilitate successful coordination within groups by reducing strategic uncertainty, but they may lead to … coordination failure when two groups with diverging precedents have to interact. This paper describes an experiment to explore how … such coordination failure can be mitigated and whether subjects are aware of it. In an initial phase, groups were able to …

Precedents can facilitate successful coordination within groups by reducing strategic uncertainty, but they may lead to … coordination failure when two groups with diverging precedents have to interact. This paper describes an experiment to explore how … such coordination failure can be mitigated and whether subjects are aware of it. In an initial phase, groups were able to …

messages, on their credibility and on actual play. We run an experiment in a three-player coordination game with Pareto ranked …

egocentric instead. Our results contribute to the understanding of coordination dynamics resting on heterogeneity and co …

×2 games. One-way communication weakly increases coordination on Nash equilibrium outcomes, although average payoffs sometimes … of symmetric 2×2 games, we find that communication facilitates coordination in common interest games with positive … spillovers and strategic complementarities, but there are also games in which any type of communication hampers coordination …

impossible in finite games. Firstly, in coordination games, all players have the same preferences: switching to a weakly dominant … action makes everyone at least as well off as before. Nevertheless, there are coordination games where the best outcome … action. Secondly, the location of payoff-dominant equilibria behaves capriciously: two coordination games that look so much …