It is commonly assumed that friendship should decrease strategic uncertainty in games involving tacit coordination …. However, this has never been tested on two "opposite poles" of coordination, namely, games of strategic complements and …

. However, this has never been tested on two "opposite poles" of coordination, namely, games of strategic complements and …. Friendship thus appears to have a very different impact on coordination games involving strategic complements and substitutes. We …

Friendship is commonly assumed to reduce strategic uncertainty and enhance tacit coordination. However, this assumption … has never been tested across two opposite poles of coordination involving either strategic complementarity or … substitutability. We had participants interact with friends or strangers in two classic coordination games: the stag hunt game, which …

We study (anti-) coordination problems in networks in a laboratory experiment. Participants interact with their … neighbours in a fixed network to play a bilateral (anti-) coordination game. Our main treatment variable is the extent to which … of successful coordination. In addition, even though there is a multiplicity of Nash equilibria theoretically, a very …