Human communication in organizations often involves a large amount of gossiping about others. Here we study in an …

which they usually take different positions. Two examples of such structures are communication networks and hierarchies. In … feasible sets in communication networks and compare them with feasible sets arising from hierarchies. …

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 …

recipients attach to communication opportunities (experiment 2). The first experiment shows that the effect of communication on …

This paper experimentally investigates free-riding behavior on communication cost in a coordination game and finds … strong indications of such free-riding. Firstly, the subjects wait for others to send a message when communication is costly …, which does not happen when communication is costless. Secondly, the proportion of games where no communication or one …