On the Level of Cooperative Behavior in a Local-Interaction Model

Journal of Economics/ Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-30

  Tieman, Alexander F ^a   Houba, Harold ^a   Van Der Laan, Gerard ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Evolution; Local interaction; Markov processes; Prisoner's dilemma

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346673804     PISSN: 09318658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf01227494     Document Type: Article

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