Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/74288 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 73.2006
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
The paper studies, in a repeated interaction setting, how the presence of cooperative agents in a heterogeneous community organized in groups affects efficiency and group stability. The paper expands on existing literature by assuming that each type can profitably mimic other types. It is shown that such enlargement of profitable options prevents group stabilization in the single group case. Stabilization can be obtained with many groups, but its driver is not the efficiency gain due to the presence of cooperative individuals. Rather, stabilization is the result of free riding opportunities.
Subjects: 
Adverse Selection
Group Stability
Altruism
JEL: 
D64
D71
D82
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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