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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems (LNE, volume 598)
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Cooperation is beneficial but may be hard to achieve in situations where the selfish interests of individuals conflict with their common goal, such as in sharing of goods, help, knowledge or information, in trade and pollution negotiations, and in exploitation of common resources. The standard models of such "social dilemmas" assume that the individuals are obliged to participate in the dilemma. These models fail to capture an important element of human interaction: that people are in general free to select their interaction partners. 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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Partner Choice and Cooperation in Networks
Book Subtitle: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Authors: Aljaž Ule
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73016-3
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-73015-6Published: 04 January 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-73016-3Published: 10 January 2008
Series ISSN: 0075-8442
Series E-ISSN: 2196-9957
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 202
Topics: Personality and Social Psychology, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Behavioral Sciences, Microeconomics, Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences