This study examines dishonesty in two-person groups in which social comparison is possible. We conducted an online experiment using a version of the coin-toss task in two different environments where group members’ payoffs are affected (or not) by each other’s reports. We find that, in both...

We theoretically and experimentally study the effect of noise variance and prize valuation on effort in individual contests and in three different types of group contests: perfect-substitutes, best-shot, and weakest-link. For all contest types, we use the rank-order contest model, where effort...

In this paper, we experimentally compare the effect of costless direct and indirect messages on the risky action choices, hence on coordinations in stag-hunt games. We show that there is no effect of costless indirect messages on the frequency of risky action choices and hence on coordination on...

In this paper, we experimentally investigate the impact of costly indirect and direct messages on coordination levels in a stag-hunt game. We also compare the coordination rates with costly pre-play communication to the rates with costless pre-play communication. Three main insights emerge from...