Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/26388
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 2343
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We define an indirect evolutionary approach formally and apply it to (Tullock) contests. While it is known (Leininger, 2003) that the direct evolutionary approach in the form of finite population ESS (Schaffer, 1988) yields more aggressive behavior than in Nash equilibrium, it is now shown that the indirect evolutionary approach yields the same more aggressive behavior, too. This holds for any population size N, if evolution of preferences is determined by behavior in two-player contests. The evolutionarily stable preferences (ESP) of the indirect approach turn out to be negatively interdependent, thereby ”rationalizing” the more aggressive behavior.
Subjects: 
Contests
preference evolution
evolutionary stability
JEL: 
C79
D72
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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