PREFERENTIAL OPPONENT SELECTION IN PUBLIC GOODS GAMES

This paper discusses preferential opponent selection in public goods games. It is shown that a preference to play with successful opponents strongly enhances the prevalence of cooperation. The finding is robust on spatial grids and heterogeneous networks. Importantly, I also demonstrate that positive opponent selection biases can evolve and become dominant in initially randomly mixed populations without selection bias.

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Year of publication:	2012
Authors:	BREDE, MARKUS
Published in:	Advances in Complex Systems (ACS). - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., ISSN 1793-6802. - Vol. 15.2012, 07, p. 1250074-1
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Subject:	Public goods games \| evolutionary game theory \| complex networks

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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