Human communication in organizations often involves a large amount of gossiping about others. Here we study in an … experiment whether gossip affects the efficiency of human interactions. We let subjects play a trust game. Third parties observe …

We present an experiment on strategic thinking and behavior of individuals and teams in one-shot normal-form games …

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

We present an economic experiment on network formation, in which subjects can decide to form links to one another …. Direct links are costly but being connected is valuable. The gametheoretic basis for our experiment is the model of Bala and …

experiment that reproduces the main features of a tennis match. We show that our importance criterion is able to predict the …

. In our laboratory experiment, we establish the existence of a significant efficiency premium of uniform wages. However …