Stable cooperation emerges in stochastic multiplicative growth. Fant, L., Mazzarisi, O., Panizon, E., & Grilli, J. arXiv:2202.02787 [cond-mat, physics:physics, q-bio, q-fin], February, 2022. arXiv: 2202.02787
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Understanding the evolutionary stability of cooperation is a central problem in biology, sociology, and economics. There exist only a few known mechanisms that guarantee the existence of cooperation and its robustness to cheating. Here, we introduce a new mechanism for the emergence of cooperation in the presence of fluctuations. We consider agents whose wealth change stochastically in a multiplicative fashion. Each agent can share part of her wealth as public good, which is equally distributed among all the agents. We show that, when agents operate with long time-horizons, cooperation produce an advantage at the individual level, as it effectively screens agents from the deleterious effect of environmental fluctuations.
@article{fant_stable_2022,
	title = {Stable cooperation emerges in stochastic multiplicative growth},
	url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2202.02787},
	abstract = {Understanding the evolutionary stability of cooperation is a central problem in biology, sociology, and economics. There exist only a few known mechanisms that guarantee the existence of cooperation and its robustness to cheating. Here, we introduce a new mechanism for the emergence of cooperation in the presence of fluctuations. We consider agents whose wealth change stochastically in a multiplicative fashion. Each agent can share part of her wealth as public good, which is equally distributed among all the agents. We show that, when agents operate with long time-horizons, cooperation produce an advantage at the individual level, as it effectively screens agents from the deleterious effect of environmental fluctuations.},
	language = {en},
	urldate = {2022-02-08},
	journal = {arXiv:2202.02787 [cond-mat, physics:physics, q-bio, q-fin]},
	author = {Fant, Lorenzo and Mazzarisi, Onofrio and Panizon, Emanuele and Grilli, Jacopo},
	month = feb,
	year = {2022},
	note = {arXiv: 2202.02787},
	keywords = {unread},
}

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