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The pure effect of social preferences on regional location choices: the evolving dynamics of convergence to a steady state population distribution
Stark, Oded; Budziński, Wiktor; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2019
This paper tracks the consequences of individuals' desire to align their location with their social preferences. The social preference studied in the paper is distaste for relative deprivation, measured in a cardinal manner. Location is conceived as social space, with individuals choosing to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012004128
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The pure effect of social preferences on regional location choices : the evolving dynamics of convergence to a steady state population distribution
Stark, Oded; Budziński, Wiktor; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2019
This paper tracks the consequences of individuals' desire to align their location with their social preferences. The social preference studied in the paper is distaste for relative deprivation, measured in a cardinal manner. Location is conceived as social space, with individuals choosing to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005655
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The pure effect of social preferences on regional location choices : the evolving dynamics of convergence to a steady state population distribution
Stark, Oded; Budzinski, Wiktor; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2019
This paper tracks the consequences of individuals' desire to align their location with their social preferences. The social preference studied in the paper is distaste for relative deprivation, measured in a cardinal manner. Location is conceived as social space, with individuals choosing to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011994585
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Is population growth conducive to the sustainability of cooperation?
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2011
This paper asks whether population growth is conducive to the sustainability of cooperation. A simple model is developed in which farmers who live around a circular lake engage in trade with their adjacent neighbors. The payoffs from this activity are governed by a prisoner's dilemma rule of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323671
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Is population growth conducive to the sustainability of cooperation? Oded Stark and Marcin Jakubek
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2011
This paper asks whether population growth is conducive to the sustainability of cooperation. A simple model is developed in which farmers who live around a circular lake engage in trade with their adjacent neighbors. The payoffs from this activity are governed by a prisoner's dilemma "rule of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009238658
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Is population growth conducive to the sustainability of cooperation?
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2011
This paper asks whether population growth is conducive to the sustainability of cooperation. A simple model is developed in which farmers who live around a circular lake engage in trade with their adjacent neighbors. The payoffs from this activity are governed by a prisoner's dilemma "rule of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009233355
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An Adverse Social Welfare Effect of a Doubly Gainful Trade
Stark, Oded - 2018
Acknowledging individuals' distaste for low relative income renders trade less appealing when trade is viewed as a technology that integrates economies by merging separate social spheres into one. We define a “trembling trade” as a situation in which gains from trade are overtaken by losses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917980
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An Evolutionary Edge of Knowing Less : On the 'Curse' of Global Information
Stark, Oded - 2009
Consider a population of farmers who live around a lake. Each farmer engages in trade with his two adjacent neighbors. The trade is governed by a prisoner's dilemma quot;rule of engagement.quot; A farmer's payoff is the sum of the payoffs from the two prisoner's dilemma games played with his two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012718372
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Is Population Growth Conducive to the Sustainability of Cooperation?
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2011
This paper asks whether population growth is conducive to the sustainability of cooperation. A simple model is developed in which farmers who live around a circular lake engage in trade with their adjacent neighbors. The payoffs from this activity are governed by a prisoner’s dilemma “rule...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014179249
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Agglomeration, pollution, and migration : a substantial link, and policy design
Stark, Oded; Pang, Yu; Fan, Chengze Simon - 2022
We study a developing countries setting in which agglomeration efficiency of urban production attracts rural … formation of policies aimed at striking a socially optimal balance between supporting efficient levels of urban agglomeration … intervention, although rural-to-urban migration contributes to agglomeration economies, it does not improve social welfare because …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013459470