Efficiency gains from team-based coordination - Large-scale experimental evidence

American Economic Review

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1892-1912

  Feri, Francesco ^a   Irlenbusch, Bernd ^b,c,d   Sutter, Matthias ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d IZA   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956953399     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.100.4.1892     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Berninghaus, Siegfried K., and Karl-Martin Ehrhart. 1998. "Time Horizon and Equilibrium Selection in Tacit Coordination Games: Experimental Results." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 37(2): 231-248
2. Blinder, Alan S., and John Morgan. 2005. "Are Two Heads Better Than One? Monetary Policy by Committee." Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 37(5): 789-811.
3. Blume, Andreas, and Andreas Ortmann. 2007. "The Effects of Costless Pre-Play Communication: Experimental Evidence from Games with Pareto-Ranked Equilibria." Journal of Economic Theory, 132(1): 274-290
4. Bornstein, Gary, and Ilan Yaniv. 1998. "Individual and Group Behavior in the Ultimatum Game: Are Groups More "Rational" Players?" Experimental Economics, 1(1): 101-108
5. Bornstein, Gary, Uri Gneezy, and Rosmarie Nagel. 2002. "The Effect of Intergroup Competition on Group Coordination: An Experimental Study." Games and Economic Behavior, 41(1): 1-25.
6. Bornstein, Gary, Tamar Kugler, and Anthony Ziegelmeyer. 2004. "Individual and Group Decisions in the Centipede Game: Are Groups More 'Rational' Players?" Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40(5): 599-605.
7. Bosman, Ronald, Heike Hennig-Schmidt, and Frans van Winden. 2006. "Exploring Group Decision Making in a Power-to-Take Experiment." Experimental Economics, 9(1): 35-51.
8. Brandts, Jordi, and David J. Cooper. 2006a. "A Change Would Do You Good . . . An Experimental Study on How to Overcome Coordination Failure in Organizations." American Economic Review, 96(3): 669-693
9. Brandts, Jordi, and David J. Cooper. 2006b. "Observability and Overcoming Coordination Failure in Organizations: An Experimental Study." Experimental Economics, 9(4): 407-423 (Pubitemid 44953107)
10. Camerer, Colin F. 2003. Behavioral Game Theory: Experiments in Strategic Interaction. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
11. Camerer, Colin F. 2003. Behavioral Game Theory: Experiments in Strategic Interaction. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press Camerer, Colin, and Teck-Hua Ho. 1999. "Experience-Weighted Attraction Learning in Normal Form Games." Econometrica, 67(4): 827-874
12. Camerer, Colin F., and Marc J. Knez. 1997. "Coordination in Organizations: A Game Theoretic Perspective." In Organizational Decision Making, ed. Zur Shapira, 158-188 Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
13. Cason, Timothy N., and Vai-Lam Mui. 1997. "A Laboratory Study of Group Polarisation in the Team Dictator Game." Economic Journal, 107(444): 1465-1483
14. Charness, Gary. 2000. "Self-Serving Cheap Talk: A Test of Aumann's Conjecture." Games and Economic Behavior, 33(2): 177-194
15. Charness, Gary, and Matthew O. Jackson. 2007. "Group Play in Games and the Role of Consent in Network Formation." Journal of Economic Theory, 136(1): 417-445
16. Charness, Gary, and Matthew O. Jackson. 2009. "The Role of Responsibility in Strategic Risk-Taking." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 69(3): 241-247
17. Charness, Gary, Luca Rigotti, and Aldo Rustichini. 2007. "Individual Behavior and Group Membership." American Economic Review, 97(4): 1340-1352
18. Cooper, David J., and John H. Kagel. 2005. "Are Two Heads Better Than One? Team Versus Individual Play in Signaling Games." American Economic Review, 95(3): 477-509.
19. Cooper, Russell. 1999. Coordination Games: Complementarities and Macroeconomics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
20. Cooper, Russell, Douglas V. DeJong, Robert Forsythe, and Thomas W. Ross. 1990. "Selection Criteria in Coordination Games: Some Experimental Results." American Economic Review, 80(1): 218-233
21. Cooper, Russell, Douglas V. DeJong, Robert Forsythe, and Thomas W. Ross. 1992. "Communication in Coordination Games." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 107(2): 739-771
22. Cox, James C. 2002. "Trust, Reciprocity, and Other-Regarding Preferences: Groups Vs. Individuals and Males Vs. Females." In Experimental Business Research, ed. Rami Zwick and Amnon Rapoport, 331-350 Boston: Kluwer Academic.
23. Crawford, Vincent P. 1991. "An "Evolutionary" Interpretation of Van Huyck, Battalio, and Beil's Experimental Results on Coordination." Games and Economic Behavior, 3(1): 25-59.
24. Crawford, Vincent P. 1995. "Adaptive Dynamics in Coordination Games." Econometrica, 63(1): 103-143
25. Crawford, Vincent P., Uri Gneezy, and Yuval Rottenstreich. 2008. "The Power of Focal Points Is Limited: Even Minute Payoff Asymmetry May Yield Large Coordination Failures." American Economic Review, 98(4): 1443-1458
26. Devetag, Giovanna. 2003. "Coordination and Information in Critical Mass Games: An Experimental Study." Experimental Economics, 6(1): 53-73.
27. Devetag, Giovanna, and Andreas Ortmann. 2007. "When and Why? A Critical Survey on Coordination Failure in the Laboratory." Experimental Economics, 10(3): 331-344
28. Duffy, John, and Nick Feltovich. 2002. "Do Actions Speak Louder Than Words? An Experimental Comparison of Observation and Cheap Talk." Games and Economic Behavior, 39(1): 1-27.
29. Duffy, John, and Nick Feltovich. 2006. "Words, Deeds, and Lies: Strategic Behaviour in Games with Multiple Signals." Review of Economic Studies, 73(3): 669-688
30. Feltovich, Nick. 2003. "Nonparametric Tests of Differences in Medians: Comparison of the Wilcoxon- Mann-Whitney and Robust Rank-Order Tests." Experimental Economics, 6(3): 273-297
31. Fischbacher, Urs. 2007. "Z-Tree: Zurich Toolbox for Ready-Made Economic Experiments." Experimental Economics, 10(2): 171-178
32. Friedman, James W., ed. 1994. Problems of Coordination in Economic Activity. Boston: Kluwer Academic.
33. Goeree, Jacob K., and Charles A. Holt. 2005. "An Experimental Study of Costly Coordination." Games and Economic Behavior, 51(2): 349-364
34. Greiner, Ben. 2004. "An Online Recruiting System for Economic Experiments." In Forschung und wissenschaftliches Rechnen 2003, ed. Kurt Kremer and Volker Macho, 79-93. GWDG Bericht 63, Goettingen: Ges. Für Wiss. Datenverarbeitung.
35. Hamman, John, Scott Rick, and Roberto A. Weber. 2007. "Solving Coordination Failure with 'All-or- None' Group-Level Incentives." Experimental Economics, 10(3): 285-303.
36. Harsanyi, John C., and Reinhard Selten. 1988. A General Theory of Equilibrium Selection in Games. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
37. Ho, Teck-Hua, Xin Wang, and Colin F. Camerer. 2008. "Individual Differences in EWA Learning with Partial Payoff Information." Economic Journal, 118(525): 37-59.
38. Ho, Teck-Hua, Colin F. Camerer, and Juin-Kuan Chong. 2001. "Economic Value of EWA Lite: A Functional Theory of Learning in Games." California Institute of Technology Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences Working Paper 1122.
39. Ho, Teck-Hua, Colin F. Camerer, and Juin-Kuan Chong. 2007. "Self-Tuning Experience Weighted Attraction Learning in Games." Journal of Economic Theory, 133(1): 177-198
40. Katzenbach, Jon R., and Douglas K. Smith. 1993. The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.
41. Knez, Marc, and Duncan Simester. 2001. "Firm-Wide Incentives and Mutual Monitoring at Continental Airlines." Journal of Labor Economics, 19(4): 743-772
42. Kocher, Martin G., and Matthias Sutter. 2005. "The Decision Maker Matters: Individual Versus Group Behaviour in Experimental Beauty-Contest Games." Economic Journal, 115(500): 200-223
43. Kugler, Tamar, Gary Bornstein, Martin G. Kocher, and Matthias Sutter. 2007. "Trust between Individuals and Groups: Groups Are Less Trusting Than Individuals but Just as Trustworthy." Journal of Economic Psychology, 28(6): 646-657
44. Luhan, Wolfgang J., Martin G. Kocher, and Matthias Sutter. 2009. "Group Polarization in the Team Dictator Game Reconsidered." Experimental Economics, 12(1): 26-41.
45. Manzini, Paola, Abdolkarim Sadrieh, and Nicolaas J. Vriend. 2009. "On Smiles, Winks and Handshakes as Coordination Devices." Economic Journal, 119(537): 826-854
46. Ochs, Jack. 1995. "Coordination Problems." In The Handbook of Experimental Economics, ed. John H. Kagel and Alvin E. Roth, 195-251. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
47. Schelling, Thomas C. 1980. The Strategy of Conflict. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
48. Schmidt, David, Robert Shupp, James M. Walker, and Elinor Ostrom. 2003. "Playing Safe in Coordination Games: The Roles of Risk Dominance, Payoff Dominance, and History of Play." Games and Economic Behavior, 42(2): 281-299
49. Van Huyck, John B., Raymond C. Battalio, and Richard O. Beil. 1990. "Tacit Coordination Games, Strategic Uncertainty, and Coordination Failure." American Economic Review, 80(1): 234-248
50. Van Huyck, John B., Raymond C. Battalio, and Richard O. Beil. 1991. "Strategic Uncertainty, Equilibrium Selection, and Coordination Failure in Average Opinion Games." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 106(3): 885-910.
51. Van Huyck, John B., Joseph P. Cook, and Raymond C. Battalio. 1997. "Adaptive Behavior and Coordination Failure." Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 32(4): 483-503.
52. Weber, Roberto A. 2006. "Managing Growth to Achieve Efficient Coordination in Large Groups." American Economic Review, 96(1): 114-126