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Cooperation and cultural transmission in a coordination game
Gonzalo OlcinaVicente Calabuigsubject
National EconomyOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource ManagementEconomics and Econometricseducation.field_of_studyVolkswirtschaftstheoriegenetic structuresEconomicsmedia_common.quotation_subjectSocialization (Marxism)PopulationWirtschaftC78D64D63Cultural TransmissionCoordination GameSocial PreferencesCooperationMigrationOverlapping generations modelmigrationSocial preferencesMicroeconomicsNegotiationEconomicsddc:330Coordination gameSociocultural evolutioneducationCultural transmission in animalsmedia_commonCultural Transmission; Coordination Game; Social Preferences; Cooperation;description
Abstract The aim of this paper is to analyze if cooperation can be the product of cultural evolution in a two-stage coordination game, consisting of a production stage followed by a negotiation phase. We present an overlapping generations model with cultural transmission of preferences where the distribution of preferences in the population and the strategies are determined endogenously and simultaneously. There are several groups in the society; some of them play cooperatively and others do not. Socialization takes place inside the group, but there is a positive rate of migration among groups which parents anticipate. Our main result shows that all groups converge to the cooperative equilibrium.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-10-01 |