Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/149110 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
UPSE Discussion Paper No. 2015-13
Publisher: 
University of the Philippines, School of Economics (UPSE), Quezon City
Abstract: 
We reformulate the Humean farmer game on the basis of random assignment of advantage and the cost e of helping in another's harvest. The result is a game that is a coordination game if e < ½ or a dominant strategy Prisoner's Dilemma Game if e > ½ which allows a joint treatment of the two interpretations of the Humean farmer game. We employ two behavioral types initially: the conditionally cooperative (H-type) and the free riding (NH-type). We employ replication dynamics with assortative matching and multiple production cycles to investigate which evolutionarily stable (EE) monomorphic population it engenders. We show that the ceiling for effort cost e to support an EE monomorphic H-type population in the Stag-Hunt game rises to (1 + b)/2 from 1/2 in pure random matching case. As the assortative index b rises, the basin of attraction of the EE H-type solution rises. When the assortative matching is perfect (b = 1), in the Stag-Hunt game version (0 < e < ½), the monomorphic NH-type population (s* = 0) is no longer EE while the monomorphic H-type solution (s** = 1) is EE; in the Dominant Strategy game version (e > ½), s* = 0 is EE iff e > (3/4) while s** = 1 is EE.
Subjects: 
Humean farmer game
helping cost
assortative matching
production cycles
emergence of cooperation
JEL: 
B0
B15
B31
C73
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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