costly guard level with the goal of avoiding breakouts. Successful breakouts require coordination among prisoners. We show …

costly guard level with the goal of avoiding breakouts. Successful breakouts require coordination among prisoners. We show …

We study the impact of communication on behavior in a two-stage coordination game with asymmetric payoffs. We test … analyze whether and how quickly a conflict-avoidance take-turn strategy can emerge. First, our results show that players learn … to solve the conflict by choosing opposite options at both stages of the game. Second, many adopt a take-turn strategy to …