Partner Choice and Cooperation in Networks: Theory and Experimental Evidence

ISBN-13: 9783540730156 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 202 str.

Aljaž Ule

Opis

In this book, a social dilemma with partner selection is introduced and studied with the methods of formal game theory, experimental economics and computer simulations. It allows exploration of simultaneous dynamics of the network structure and cooperative behavior on this structure. The results of this study show that partner choice strongly facilitates cooperation and leads to networks where free-riders are likely to be excluded.

Spis treści

Motivation and Outline.- Basic Concepts of the Theories of Games, Networks and Markov Chains.- The Network Dilemma Game.- Cooperation in Finitely Repeated Network Dilemma Games.- Exclusion and Cooperation in Experiments.- Dynamics of Partner Choice and Cooperation.