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Andersson, Ola; Holm, Hakan J. - In: Games 4 (2013) 3, pp. 497-507

This paper experimentally investigates free-riding behavior on communication cost in a coordination game and finds … strong indications of such free-riding. Firstly, the subjects wait for others to send a message when communication is costly …, which does not happen when communication is costless. Secondly, the proportion of games where no communication or one …

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A notion of prominence for games with natural-language labels

Sontuoso, Alessandro; Bhatia, Sudeep - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 12 (2021) 1, pp. 283-312

We study games with natural-language labels (i.e., strategic problems where options are denoted by words), for which we propose and test a measurable characterization of prominence. We assume that-ceteris paribus-players find particularly prominent those strategies that are denoted by words more...

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Is a "firm" a firm? : a Stackelberg experiment

Hildenbrand, Andreas - 2013

Industrial organization is mainly concerned with the behavior of large firms, especially when it comes to oligopoly theory. Experimental industrial organization, therefore, faces a problem: How can firms be brought into the laboratory? The main approach relies on framing: Call individuals...

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Leadership and the effective choice of information regime

Komai, Mana; Grossman, Philip Johnson; Benie, Evelyne - In: Theory and decision : an international journal for … 82 (2017) 1, pp. 117-129

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Coordinating to avoid the catastrophe

Bühl, Vitus; Schmidt, Robert C. - In: Journal of environmental economics and management : … 125 (2024), pp. 1-18

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Against all odds : tentative steps toward efficient information sharing in groups

Schlangenotto, Darius; Schnedler, Wendelin; Vadovič, … - In: Games 11 (2020) 3/31, pp. 1-24

When groups face difficult problems, the voices of experts may be lost in the noise of others' contributions. We present results from a "naturally noisy" setting, a large first-year undergraduate class, in which the expert's voice was "lost" to such a degree that bringing forward even more...

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