Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/71233 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
Reihe Ökonomie / Economics Series No. 123
Publisher: 
Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna
Abstract: 
We calculate the equilibrium fraction of cooperators in a population in which payoffs accrue from playing a single-shot prisoner's dilemma game. Individuals who are hardwired as cooperators or defectors are randomly matched into pairs, and cooperators are able to perfectly find out the type of a partner to a game by incurring a recognition cost. We show that the equilibrium fraction of cooperators relates negatively to the population's level of wealth.
Subjects: 
equilibrium fraction of cooperators
population's level of wealth
single-shot prisoner's dilemma game
JEL: 
A13
C70
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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