networks, such coordination may be very difficult to achieve and may depend on the communication technology and the network … structure. We examine how pre-play communication and clustering within networks affect coordination in a challenging … outcome in our game, but restricted communication (where subjects can only indicate their intended action) is almost entirely …

networks, such coordination may be very difficult to achieve and may depend on the communication technology and the network … structure. We examine how pre-play communication and clustering within networks affect coordination in a challenging … outcome in our game, but restricted communication (where subjects can only indicate their intended action) is almost entirely …

behavior. Specifically, we focus on comparing communication games with messages stating an intention versus a request. Our …This paper investigates how different message structures impact communication strategy as well as sender and receiver … contributing to the differences in games where messages lack the self-committing property. …

In standard coalition games, players try to form a coalition to secure a prize and a coalition agreement specifies how …

others creating socially suboptimal outcomes. We investigate if and how communication mitigates the strategic delay in … introducing communication into this setting reduces strategic delay. We implement our model in a laboratory experiment utilizing a … 2x2 design, where we vary the availability of communication and the number of agents. We find that communication …

Communication is well known to increase cooperation rates in social dilemma situations, but the exact mechanisms behind … this have been questioned and discussed. This study examines the impact of communication on public good provisioning in an … experimental findings, we observe a strong increase in cooperation when face-to-face communication is allowed before decision …

collectively suboptimal outcomes. Communication has been found to alleviate the dilemma and stimulate cooperation in these … shared during the communication phase. By nature, this ex post categorization is endogenous. In this study, we aim to … identify the elements of effective communication ex ante and evaluate their impact in a more controlled way. Based on the …

In standard coalition games, players try to form a coalition to secure a prize and a coalition agreement specifies how …

In this paper we introduce an extension of the model of restricted communication in cooperative games as introduced in … Myerson (1977) by allowing communication links to be directed and the worth of a coalition to depend on the order in which the … players enter the coalition. Therefore, we model the communication network by a directed graph and the cooperative game by a …

We study cooperative games with communication structure, represented by an undirected graph. Players in the game are …-convexity is weaker than convexity. For games with a cycle-free communication structure, link-convexity is even weaker than super-additivity. … proposed for this class of games. Given the graph structure we define a collection of spanning trees, where each spanning tree …