FOCAL POINTS IN PURE COORDINATION GAMES - AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION

This paper reports an experimental investigation of the hypothesis tha t in coordination games, players draw on shared concepts of salience t o identify 'focal points' on which they can coordinate. The experiment involves games in which equilibria can be distinguished from one anot her only in terms of the way strategies are labelled. The games are de signed to test a number of specific hypotheses about the determinants of salience. These hypotheses are generally confirmed by the results o f the experiment.