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Imitation of Cooperation in Prisoner's Dilemma Games with Some Local Interaction

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  • Maarten C.W. Janssen

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In this paper I study conditions for the emergence of cooperativebehavior in a dynamic model of population interaction.The model has finitely many individuals located on a circle. The pay-off of each individual is partly based on the (local)interaction with neighbors and partly on (uniform) interaction withthe whole population. The dynamics is driven byimitative behavior. I show that for a large class of parameterscooperation will emerge if the population is large; if thepopulation is small, defection will prevail in the long run. Theresult contrasts with conventional wisdom which says that thelarger the population, the less likely cooperation will be.

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  • Maarten C.W. Janssen, 2000. "Imitation of Cooperation in Prisoner's Dilemma Games with Some Local Interaction," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 00-019/1, Tinbergen Institute.
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    Keywords

    Cooperation; Prisoner's Dilemma; Evolutionary Game Theory; Local Interaction;
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    • C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
    • D62 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Externalities

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