I model people in a coordination game who use a communication network to tell each other their willingness to … or "stages": "initial adopters", then "followers", and so on down to "late adopters". A communication network helps …

. However, some players are concerned about privacy, and so revelation of evidence that does not result in cooperation is costly … sufficient amount then cooperation is profitable. In order to facilitate cooperation the players reveal evidence to one another …

. However, some players are concerned about privacy, and so revelation of evidence that does not result in cooperation is costly … sufficient amount then cooperation is profitable. In order to facilitate cooperation the players reveal evidence to one another …

Case studies of cartels and recent theory suggest that repeated communication is key for stable cooperation in … understood. We study cooperation under different monitoring and communication structures in the laboratory. Under all monitoring … environments where signals about others' actions are noisy. However, empirically the exact role of communication is not well …

We study the emergence of norms of cooperation in experimental economies populated by strangers interacting … enforcement promote cooperation? Finally, what classes of strategies are employed to achieve high efficiency? We find that, first …, cooperation can be sustained even in anonymous settings; second, some type of monitoring and punishment institutions significantly …

Communication has been regarded as one of the most effective devices in promoting team cooperation. But asymmetric … excluding one member from team communication hurts team cooperation: the communicating partners collude in profit allocation … communication sometimes breeds collusion and is detrimental to team efficiency. Here, we present experimental evidence showing that …