Replication data for: Ignorance Is Bliss: An Experimental Study of the Use of Ambiguity and Vagueness in the Coordination Games with Asymmetric Payoffs

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Marina Agranov; Andrew Schotter

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Project Description

Summary: We consider a game where one player, the Announcer, has to communicate the value of a payoff relevant state of the world to a set of players who play a coordination game with multiple equilibria. While the Announcer and the players agree that coordination is desirable, since the payoffs of the players at the equilibria are unequal, they disagree as to which equilibrium is best. We demonstrate experimentally that in such coordination games, in order to mask the asymmetry of equilibrium payoffs, it may be advantageous for a utilitarian benevolent Announcer to communicate in an ambiguous or vague manner. (JEL C71, D81, D83)

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      C71 Cooperative Games
      D81 Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
      D83 Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness

Data Type(s): experimental data

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V1 [2019-10-12]

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