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Trust and punishment

2021

Abstract This paper explores the impact of institutions on the evolution of preferences (culture) and on economic outcomes. Punishment institutions determine the capacity and the individual cost of punishing opportunistic behavior, while preferences are endogenous and can be influenced by a cultural transmission process that is conditioned by the existing punishment institutions. We investigate the interaction and evolution between the preferences for reciprocity or rewarding of the allocator and the preferences to punish hostile behaviour by the investor in a trust game with a costly punishment phase. Our main result provides a rationale for the existence of a strong positive relationship …

Economics and Econometricseducation.field_of_studyPunishment (psychology)media_common.quotation_subject05 social sciencesPopulationSocial preferencesReciprocity (evolution)0506 political scienceDictator game0502 economics and businessPolitical Science and International Relations050602 political science & public administrationInstitutionEconomics050207 economicseducationSocial psychologyCultural transmission in animalsShadow (psychology)media_commonEuropean Journal of Political Economy
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Cooperation and cultural transmission in a coordination game

2009

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 equili…

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;
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A Primer on Memetic Algorithms

2012

Memetic Algorithms (MAs) are population-based metaheuristics composed of an evolutionary framework and a set of local search algorithms which are activated within the generation cycle of the external framework, see [376]. The earliest MA implementation has been given in [621] in the context of the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) while an early systematic definition has been presented in [615]. The concept of meme is borrowed from philosophy and is intended as the unit of cultural transmission. In other words, complex ideas can be decomposed into memes which propagate andmutate within a population.Culture, in this way, constantly undergoes evolution and tends towards progressive improvemen…

education.field_of_studyTheoretical computer scienceComputer sciencebusiness.industrySurvival of the fittestPopulationContext (language use)Travelling salesman problemMemetic algorithmLocal search (optimization)educationbusinessCultural transmission in animalsMetaheuristic
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