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Heterogeneity, Local Information, and Global Interaction

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  • Aleksander Berentsen
  • Esther Bruegger
  • Simon Loertscher

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Consider a society where all agents initially play "fair" and one agent invents a "cheating" strategy such as doping in sports. Which factors determine the success of the new cheating strategy? In order to study this question we consider an evolutionary game with heterogenous agents who can either play fair or cheat. We model heterogeneity by assuming that the players are either high or low types. Three factors determine the imitation dynamics of the model: the location and the type of the innovator, the distribution of types, and the information available to the agents. In particular we find that the economy is more likely to end up in a state where all agents cheat if the innovator is of low type or when the agents are maximally segregated.

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Paper provided by Institute for Empirical Research in Economics - University of Zurich in its series IEW - Working Papers with number 182.

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Keywords: Evolutionary game theory; imitation dynamics; heterogeneity; local information; global interaction.;

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