Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/68921 
Year of Publication: 
1994
Series/Report no.: 
Diskussionsbeiträge - Serie I No. 276
Publisher: 
Universität Konstanz, Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften und Statistik, Konstanz
Abstract: 
A hybrid of a model of economic equilibrium in two markets and a social game is formed. The link between the two is established through a social norm which conditions correct social behavior on economic variables and therefore distorts the economic equilibrium allocation. The initial endowment of an individual determines whether she gains from a social norm. The evolution of norms is examined in a dynamic model where norms are more likely to persist if they deliver higher utility to their believers. Also it is assumed that norms lose importance when they are disobeyed by their believers. Optimally coordinating norms are not necessarily evolutionarily stable and a suboptimal norm can be the outcome of the evolutionary process.
JEL: 
A12
A13
D10
D61
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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