starting network. To study factors affecting equilibrium selection, we designed a network formation experiment with multiple …Theoretical models on network formation focus mostly on the stability and efficiency of equilibria, but they cannot … stage in which the network is disrupted. This setting allows us to analyze the interplay between the need for farsightedness …

another structural setting: a system of generalized exchange. In a laboratory experiment, a repeated four-player prisoner …’s dilemma is arranged either in a public good structure or in a circular network of generalized exchange. The experimental … was also altruistic and relatively frequent, but did not increase cooperation. While the dense punishment network …

dimensions of our identity (“homophily”). Lab studies of network formation games have found that adherence to social norms of … reciprocity and inequity aversion are also drivers of network choices. No study so far has attempted to investigate the role of … both homophily and social norms in a controlled environment. At the beginning of our experiment, each player fills in a …

design allows players to choose different strategies against each different neighbor. The games were played in two network …

Network reciprocity has been successfully put forward (since M. A. Nowak and R. May's, 1992, influential paper) as the … systems. The mechanism is actually the network, which makes agents' interactions localized, while network reciprocity is the … models, the property holds under imitative evolutionary processes, whereas cooperation disappears in any network if imitation …