Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/61268 
Year of Publication: 
1998
Series/Report no.: 
SFB 373 Discussion Paper No. 1998,72
Publisher: 
Humboldt University of Berlin, Interdisciplinary Research Project 373: Quantification and Simulation of Economic Processes, Berlin
Abstract: 
In standard rational choice modelling decisions are made according to given information and preferences. In the model presented here the 'information technology' of individual decision makers as well as their preferences evolve in a dynamic process. In this process decisions are made rationally by players who differ in their informational as well as in their preference type. Relative success of alternative decisions feeds back on the type composition of the population which in turn influences rational decision making. An indirect evolutionary analysis of an elementary yet important basic game of trust shows that under certain parameter constellations the population dynamics of the evolutionary process specify a unique completely mixed rest point. However, as opposed to previous studies of preference formation in the game of trust there is no convergence to but only cycling around the rest point if the informational status of individuals evolves rather than being chosen strategically.
Subjects: 
Evolutionary game models
Endogenous preference formation
Trust relationships
JEL: 
A13
C72
D82
D83
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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