RT Journal Article
T1 An Experimental Study on the Effects of Communication, Credibility, and Clustering in Network Games.
A1 Charness, Gary
A1 Feri, Francesco
A1 Meléndez-Jiménez, Miguel Ángel
A1 Sutter, Matthias
K1 Análisis cluster
K1 Juegos, Teoría de
K1 Redes, Teoría de
AB We examine how pre-play communication and clustering affect play in a challenging hybrid experimental game on networks. Free-form chat is impressively effective in achieving the non-equilibrium efficient outcome, but restricted communication has little effect. We support this result with a model about the credibility of cheap-talk messages. We also offer a model of message diffusion that correctly predicts more rapid diffusion without clustering. We show an interaction effect of network structure and communication technologies. A remarkable result is that restricted communication is quite effective in a network Stag Hunt, but not in our extended game.
PB The MIT Press
YR 2023
FD 2023-11-17
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/30249
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/30249
LA eng
NO Gary Charness, Francesco Feri, Miguel A. Meléndez-Jiménez, Matthias Sutter; An Experimental Study on the Effects of Communication, Credibility, and Clustering in Network Games. The Review of Economics and Statistics 2023; 105 (6): 1530–1543. Copyright by MIT Press.
NO Artículo publicado en Review of Economics and Statistics (copyright MIT Press)  en el volumen de noviembre de 2023: Review of Economics and Statistics (2023) 105 (6): 1530–1543. https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01150. Se adjunta la versión aceptada para su publicación, que según SHERPA (https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/9799) puede estar disponible en un repositorio institucional. Journal Link: https://direct.mit.edu/rest/article/105/6/1530/108834/An-Experimental-Study-on-the-Effects-of
NO We gratefully acknowledge funding: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Spain (ref. RTI2018-097620-B-I00), Junta de Andalucía - FEDER (P18-FR-3840 and UMA18-FEDERJA-243), and the University of Cologne (through the Hans Kelsen Prize).
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 21 ene 2026