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Rewiring to promote fairness in the Dictator Game

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  • O’Riordan, Evan
  • Glavin, Frank G.
  • O’Riordan, Colm

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In this paper, we investigate the emergence of fairness in a dynamic network where agents play the Dictator Game. Agents are initially positioned on a regular lattice graph and interact as both dictators and recipients while updating their trust relationships via weights. If trust values are low, agents can potentially sever connections and randomly establish new links, dynamically reshaping the network topology. We demonstrate how this adaptive rewiring mechanism leads to the emergence of fair and generous clusters. Our findings reveal that the combination of trust updating and selective rewiring promotes higher levels of fairness than those observed in static networks, with implications for understanding the evolution of cooperative behaviour in social and economic systems.

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  • O’Riordan, Evan & Glavin, Frank G. & O’Riordan, Colm, 2026. "Rewiring to promote fairness in the Dictator Game," Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Elsevier, vol. 205(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:chsofr:v:205:y:2026:i:c:s096007792501759x
    DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2025.117746
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