Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/53367
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 37.2009
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
We develop a simple model to study the coevolution of interaction structures and action choices in Prisoners' Dilemma games. Agents are boundedly rational and choose both actions and interaction partners via payoff-based imitation. The dynamics of imitation and exclusion yields polymorphic outcomes under a wide range of parameters. Depending on the parameters of the model two scenarios can arise. Either there is full separation of defectors and cooperators, i.e. they are found in two different, disconnected components. Or there is marginalization of defectors, i.e. connected networks emerge with a center of cooperators and a periphery of defectors. Simulations confirm our analytical results and show that the share of cooperators increases with the speed at which the network evolves, increases with the radius of interaction and decreases with the radius of information of agents.
Subjects: 
Game Theory
Cooperation
Imitation Learning
Network Formation
JEL: 
C70
C73
D85
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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