Is Population Growth Conducive to the Sustainability of Cooperation?

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dc.contributor.author Stark, Oded de_DE
dc.contributor.author Jakubek, Marcin de_DE
dc.date.accessioned 2011-07-26 de_DE
dc.date.accessioned 2014-03-18T10:03:45Z
dc.date.available 2011-07-26 de_DE
dc.date.available 2014-03-18T10:03:45Z
dc.date.issued 2011 de_DE
dc.identifier.other 347806473 de_DE
dc.identifier.uri http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-opus-57378 de_DE
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10900/47865
dc.description.abstract 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 engagement.” Every farmer has one son when the population is not growing, or two sons when it is growing. In the former case, the son takes over the farm when his father dies. In the latter case, one son stays on his father’s farm, whereas the other son settles around another lake, along with the “other” sons of the other farmers. During his childhood, each son observes the strategies and the payoffs of his father and of the trading partners of his father, and imitates the most successful strategy when starting farming on his own. Then mutant defectors are introduced into an all-cooperator community. The defector strategy may spread. A comparison is drawn between the impact in terms of the sustainability of cooperation of the appearance of the mutants in a population that is not growing, and in one that is growing. It is shown that the ex-ante probability of sustaining the cooperation strategy is higher for a community that is growing than for a stagnant community. en
dc.language.iso en de_DE
dc.publisher Universität Tübingen de_DE
dc.rights ubt-podno de_DE
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dc.rights.uri http://tobias-lib.uni-tuebingen.de/doku/lic_ohne_pod.php?la=en en
dc.subject.classification Bevölkerungswachstum de_DE
dc.subject.ddc 330 de_DE
dc.subject.other Population growth , Imitation , Sustainability of cooperation en
dc.title Is Population Growth Conducive to the Sustainability of Cooperation? en
dc.type WorkingPaper de_DE
utue.publikation.fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften de_DE
utue.publikation.fakultaet 6 Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät de_DE
dcterms.DCMIType Text de_DE
utue.publikation.typ workingPaper de_DE
utue.opus.id 5737 de_DE
utue.publikation.source University of Tübingen Working Papers in Economics and Finance ; 15 de_DE

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