indefinitely repeated. Cooperation did not increase when subjects could send public messages amounting to binding promises of …

Social norms of cooperation are studied under several forms of communication. In an experiment, strangers could make … equilibria. Communication could be used as a tool to either signal intentions to coordinate on Pareto-superior outcomes, to … deceive others, or to credibly commit to actions. Some forms of communication did not promote the incidence of efficient Nash …

Social norms of cooperation are studied under several forms of communication. In an experiment, strangers could make … equilibria. Communication could be used as a tool to either signal intentions to coordinate on Pareto-superior outcomes, to … deceive others, or to credibly commit to actions. Some forms of communication did not promote the incidence of efficient Nash …

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