Using experimental methods, this paper investigates the limits of communication and leadership in aiding group … communication and leadership are expected to help in coordinating on such an equilibrium. We consider an environment in which the …

We study how upward communication - from workers to managers - about individual efforts affects the effectiveness of …

shown for face-toface decision making, which has ceased to be the prevalent form of communication in many IT …-based organizations. To test the robustness of higher group rationality under conditions of virtual communication, we conduct a social … learning experiment. We find that virtual communication leads to a substantial deterioration of group rationality for a …

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 study communication in a static Cournot duopoly model under the assumption that the firms have unverifiable private … can communicate through a third party, communication can be informative even when it is not substantiated by any … commitment or costly actions. We exhibit a simple mechanism that ensures informative communication and interim Pareto dominates …

" consists of unverifiable information and the quality of communication depends on the conflict of interests between the …