Using experimental methods, this paper investigates the limits of communication and leadership in aiding group … coordination in a minimum effort game. Choosing the highest effort is the payoff dominant Nash equilibrium in this game, and … communication and leadership are expected to help in coordinating on such an equilibrium. We consider an environment in which the …

We study the simultaneous move version of a coordination game in which failures arise due to the use (and fear) of … weakly dominated strategies. Existing evidence shows neither cheap talk communication between players nor historical …-talk communication. We find oath significantly improves the truthfulness of messages sent, as well as helps eliminating weakly dominated …

Coordination failures are at the heart of development traps. Although communication can reduce such failures, to date … experimental evidence has primarily been lab based. This paper studies the impact of communication in stag hunt coordination games … failure, as in many rural contexts. We find that communication increases coordination only in larger experimental groups …