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Almost all economic and public choice models assume that all people are exclusively pursuing their own material self-interests and do not care about "social" goals per se. Several (laboratory) experiments address the question of the general validity of this assumption. A consistent conclusion...
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Community enforcement is an important device for sustaining efficiency in some repeated games of cooperation. We … investigate cooperation when information about players' reputations spreads to their future partners through links in a social … network that connects them. We find that information supports cooperation by increasing trust between players, and obtain the …
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This study revisits the problem of the tragedy of the commons. Extracting agents participate in an evolutionary game in a complex social network and are subject to social pressure if they do not comply with the social norms. Social pressure depends on the dynamics of the resource, the network...
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access to a common pool resource. The diffusion of norms of cooperation takes place via interpersonal relations, while … followed by a sudden burst, which means that a transition from a cooperative social norm to non-cooperation occurs …
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public employees, and citizens is positively related to performance-enhancing behaviors, such as cooperation and information …
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We study the stability properties of organizations in partition function games, describing cooperative situations with externalities. An organization is defined as a group of agents, together with a set of bilateral relations, formally, a connected graph. Because of the presence of...
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This report constitutes the first deliverable of the project ENGIME Economic Growth and Innovation in Multicultural Environments, financed by the European Commission FP5 Key Action: Improving socio-economic knowledge base. Contract HPSE-CT2001-50007
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Pairing Games or Markets studied here are the non-two-sided NTU generalization of assignment games. We show that the Equilibrium Set is nonempty, that it is the set of stable allocations or the set of semistable allocations, and that it has several notable structural properties. We also...
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