@techreport{Ania2009open,
abstract = {We interpret the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), recently adopted by the EU as a mode of governance in the area of social policy and other fields, as an imitative learning dynamics of the type considered in evolutionary game theory. The best-practise feature and the iterative design of the OMC correspond to the behavioral rule imitate the best. In a redistribution game with utilitarian governments and mobile welfare beneficiaries, we compare the outcomes of imitative behavior (long-run evolutionary equilibrium), decentralized best-response behaviour (Nash equilibrium), and coordinated policies. The main result is that the OMC allows policy coordination on a strict subset of the set of Nash equilibria, favoring in particular coordination on intermediate values of the policy instrument.},
address = {M\"{u}nchen},
author = {Ana B. Ania and Andreas Wagener},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {H77; H75; C73; 330; Open Method of Coordination; Finite-population Evolutionarily Stable Strategy; imitation; mobility; redistribution; EU-Politik; Internationale wirtschaftspolitische Koordination; Evolution\"{a}re Spieltheorie; Theorie; EU-Staaten},
language = {eng},
number = {2601},
publisher = {CESifo},
title = {The open method of coordination (OMC) as an evolutionary learning process},
type = {CESifo working paper},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/26646},
year = {2009}
}
