We investigate the evolution of cooperative behaviors with increasing neighborhood size on diluted lattices. For three typical pairwise game models which include prisoner’s dilemma, snowdrift and stag hunt games, all numerical results indicate that cooperation can persist or emerge around the...

It is well-known that individual diversity is a typical feature within the collective population. To model this kind of characteristics, we propose an evolutionary model of public goods game with two types of players (named as A and B), where players are located on the sites of a square lattice...

Based upon an analysis of a town government’s meeting records between March 2001 and October 2007, as well as interviews with its key officials and the town government’s annual work reports, this essay addresses and explains the repertoire of social stability control employed by this town...

Quantifying the effect of transportation on urban air pollution is challenging because decisions to travel are endogenous to air quality. The spread of COVID-19 offers a unique opportunity for causal identification, as the pandemic directly affects decisions to travel and choices of...

Changes in trading relationships including trade wars can have a large impact on the distribution of GHG emissions across supply chains. While previous studies have examined the emission impacts resulting from tariff adjustments during China-US trade wars they do not investigate what would...