Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/84785 
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Year of Publication: 
2003
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ZEF Discussion Papers on Development Policy No. 59
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University of Bonn, Center for Development Research (ZEF), Bonn
Abstract: 
We calculate the equilibrium fraction of cooperators in a population in which payoffs accrue from playing a single-shot prisoner's dilemma game. Individuals who are hardwired as cooperators or defectors are randomly matched into pairs, and cooperators are able to perfectly find out the type of a partner to a game by incurring a recognition cost. We show that the equilibrium fraction of cooperators relates negatively to the population's level of wealth.
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Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
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Working Paper

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