Partner Choice and Cooperation in Networks Theory and Experimental Evidence /

• Main Author: Ule, Aljaž (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 598
• Subjects: Psychology.; Behavioral sciences.; Game theory.; Economic theory.; Microeconomics.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Behavioral Sciences.; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences.

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 model...

Table of Contents:

• Motivation and Outline
• Basic Concepts of the Theories of Games, Networks and Markov Chains
• The Network Dilemma Game
• Cooperation in Finitely Repeated Network Dilemma Games
• Exclusion and Cooperation in Experiments
• Dynamics of Partner Choice and Cooperation.