This paper investigates how different message structures impact communication strategy as well as sender and receiver … behavior. Specifically, we focus on comparing communication games with messages stating an intention versus a request. Our …

We design experimental games to evaluate the predictive power of the first cheap-talk refinement, neologism …

We studied how communication media affect trust game play. Three popular media were considered: traditional face …-to-face, Facebook groups, and anonymous online chat. We considered post-communication changes in players' expectations and preferences …, and further analyzed the contents of group communications to understand the channels though which communication appears to …

effort provision. We test the model in a laboratory experiment and confirm its main predictions. Our results have important …

starting network. To study factors affecting equilibrium selection, we designed a network formation experiment with multiple …

-confident agents are more likely to accept early offers than overconfident agents. The experiment identifies a behavioral determinant …

We investigate strategic information transmission with communication error, or noise. Our main finding is that adding … it possible to achieve the best payoff that can be obtained by means of any communication device. As in the model without …