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Within-Team Competition in the Minimum Effort Coordination Game

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Enrique Fatas (University Valencia)
Tibor Neugebauer (University Hannover)
Javier Perote (Juan Carlos University Madrid)

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We report the results of an experiment on a continuous version of the minimum effort coordination game. The introduction of within-team competition significantly increases effort levels relative to a baseline with no competition and increases coordination relative to a secure treatment where the payoff-dominant equilibrium strategy weakly dominates all other actions. Nonetheless, within-team competition does not prevent subjects to polarize both in the efficient and the inefficient equilibria.

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Paper provided by EconWPA in its series Experimental with number 0503006.

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Keywords: Coordination Games; Team Incentives; Minimum Effort Game;

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