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Spatial Evolution of Social Norms in a Common-Pool Resource Game

Joëlle Noailly, Cees Withagen and Jeroen van den Bergh
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Joëlle Noailly: CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis

No 2005.79, Working Papers from Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei

Abstract: We study the conditions for the emergence of cooperation in a spatial common-pool resource game. We consider three types of agents: cooperators, defectors and enforcers. The role of enforcers is to punish defectors for overharvesting the resource. Agents are located around a circle and they only observe the actions of their two nearest neighbors. Their payoffs are determined by both local and global interactions and they modify their actions by imitating the strategy in their neighborhood with the highest payoffs on average. Using theoretical and numerical analysis, we find that a large diversity of equilibria exists in this game. In particular, we derive conditions for the occurrence of equilibria in which the three strategies coexist. We also discuss the stability of these equilibria. Finally, we show that introducing resource dynamics favors the occurrence of cooperative equilibria.

Keywords: Common property; Evolutionary game theory; Local interactions game; Self-organization; Cooperation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 Q2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-05
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-env, nep-evo, nep-soc and nep-ure
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