Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/94041 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
SFB/TR 15 Discussion Paper No. 438
Publisher: 
Sonderforschungsbereich/Transregio 15 - Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems (GESY), München
Abstract: 
Games with multiple Nash equilibria are believed to be easier to play if players can communicate. We present a simple model of communication in games and investigate the importance of when communication takes place. Sending a message before play captures talk about intentions, after play captures talk about past commitments. We focus on equilibria where messages are believed whenever possible. Applying our results to Aumann's Stag Hunt game we find that communication is useless if talk is about commitments, while the efficient outcome is selected if talk is about intentions. This confirms intuition and empirical findings in the literature.
Subjects: 
Pre-play communication
cheap talk
coordination
JEL: 
C72
D83
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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