A Replication That Failed - on the Computational Model in 'Michael W. Macy and Yoshimichi Sato: Trust, Cooperation and Market Formation in the U.S. and Japan. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2002'

Oliver Will () and Rainer Hegselmann ()
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Oliver Will: http://pe.uni-bayreuth.de/?coid=21&q=detail&mid=125
Rainer Hegselmann: http://pe.uni-bayreuth.de/?coid=21&q=detail&mid=5

Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 2008, vol. 11

Abstract: The article describes how and why we failed to replicate main effects of a computational model that Michael Macy and Yoshimichi Sato published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (May 2002). The model is meant to answer a fundamental question about social life: Why, when and how is it possible to build trust with distant people? Based on their model, Macy and Sato warn the US society about an imminent danger: the possible break down of trust caused by too much social mobility. But the computational evidence for exactly that result turned out not to be replicable.

Keywords: Replication; Social Dilemmas; Simulation Methodology; Cooperation; Trust; Agent-Based Modelling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-06-30

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