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 …

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 …

experiment, while coordination failures emerge in the following periods sweeping away the beneficial effect of communication at … introducing communication into this setting reduces strategic delay. We implement our model in a laboratory experiment utilizing a … others creating socially suboptimal outcomes. We investigate if and how communication mitigates the strategic delay in …

knowledge public knowledge. The experiment replicates the results of earlier experimental studies (Dickhaut et al., 1995, Cai … other hand the decision makers rely too much on the received information. Moreover, communication as well as payoffs … communication is less biased. In all treatments, however, the messages are more precise than theoretically predicted. …

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. There is evidence of the …