model of communication in games and investigate the importance of when communication takes place. Sending a message before … are believed whenever possible. Applying our results to Aumann's Stag Hunt game we find that communication is useless if …

We consider an experiment with a version of the Battle of the Sexes game with two-sided private information, preceded … talk is one-way as the truthful reports facilitate desired coordination. …

type-coordination property: it fully coordinates on the ex-post efficient pure Nash equilibrium when the players' types are … different. Type-coordination is also obtained in a partially revealing equilibrium in which only the High-type is not truthful …

whenever possible, thereby develop a theory of credible communication. Predictions confirm the longstanding intuition for …

messages, on their credibility and on actual play. We run an experiment in a three-player coordination game with Pareto ranked …The paper analyzes the role of the structure of communication - i.e. who is talking with whom - on the choice of … analysis of credibility, the subjects should communicate and play the Pareto optimal equilibrium only when communication is …

the size of credible deviations. In our experiment, we find support for the relevance of credible deviations. In addition …

by an experiment. Finally, we show how partial information transmission can lead to communication failure, and show how …We provide a game theoretic analysis of how power shapes the clarity of communication. We analyze information …

Costless and non-binding pre-play communication (cheap talk) has been found to often be effective in achieving … uncertainty in the framework of a 2x2 coordination game, in which one choice leads to the same payoff regardless of the action of … the other person's play. Cheap talk is found to be effective, as there is much more coordination in both Signal treatments …

We study communication in a two-player coordination game with Pareto-ranked equilibria. Prior research demonstrates … that efficient coordination is difficult without communication but obtains regularly with (mandatory) costless pre …-play messages. In a laboratory experiment, we modify communication by making the sending of messages optional and costly. Even small …