%0 Journal Article
%T Speech Is Silver, Silence Is Golden
%A Ola Andersson
%A Hakan J. Holm
%J Games
%D 2013
%I MDPI AG
%R 10.3390/g4030497
%X 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-way communication takes place is much higher when communication is costly compared to when it is free.
%K free-riding
%K communication
%K coordination
%U http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4336/4/3/497