We examine strategic information transmission in a controlled laboratory experiment of a cheap talk game with one … communication between the sender and the receiver in a way consistent with the theoretical predictions. Deviations from the …

We use experiments to analyze what type of communication is most effective in achieving cooperation in a simple … collusion game. Consistent with the existing literature on communication and collusion, even minimal communication leads to a … strategies, this initial burst of collusion rapidly collapses. When unlimited pre-game communication is allowed via a chat window …

information may be welfare-reducing. We have conducted a laboratory experiment with 954 participants to test these hypotheses …

for coordination improves horizontal communication but worsens vertical communication. As a result, no matter how …This paper compares centralized and decentralized coordination when managers are privately informed and communicate … important coordination is, decentralization dominates centralization if the division managers are not too biased towards their …

in an experiment where actions are strategic substitutes. The game theoretic basis for our experiment is the model of … play in networks is to some extent boundedly rational, in the sense that coordination is influenced by local and individual …

This paper reports results from an experiment studying how fines, leniency programs and reward schemes for …