Evolutionarily stable preferences

I Alger - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The 50-year old concept of an evolutionarily stable strategy provided a key tool for theorists
to model ultimate drivers of behaviour in social interactions. For decades, economists …

Estimating social preferences and Kantian morality in strategic interactions

B Van Leeuwen, I Alger - Journal of Political Economy …, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
Theory suggests that a form of Kantian morality has evolutionary foundations. To investigate
the relative importance of Kantian morality and social preferences, we run a laboratory …

The evolution of collaboration in symmetric 2× 2-games with imperfect recognition of types

H Rusch - Games and Economic Behavior, 2019 - Elsevier
A recent series of papers has introduced a fresh perspective on the problem of the evolution
of human cooperation by suggesting an amendment to the concept of cooperation itself …

[HTML][HTML] Kinship can hinder cooperation in heterogeneous populations

Y Dong, S Gavrilets, CZ Qin, B Zhang - Journal of Economic Behavior & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Kin selection and direct reciprocity are two most basic mechanisms for promoting
cooperation in human society. Generalizing the standard models of the multi-player …

Homo moralis goes to the voting booth: coordination and information aggregation

I Alger, JF Laslier - Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper revisits two classical problems in the theory of voting—viz. the divided majority
problem and the strategic revelation of information—in the light of evolutionarily founded …

Kantian equilibria of a class of Nash bargaining games

A Dizarlar, E Karagözoğlu - Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We study Kantian equilibria of an nn‐player bargaining game, which is a modified version of
the well‐known divide‐the‐dollar game. We first show that the Kantian equilibrium exists …

[PDF][PDF] Homo moralis goes to the voting booth: a new theory of voter turnout

I Alger, JF Laslier - 2021 - shs.hal.science
Does universalization ethics justify participation in large elections? Page 1 HAL Id: halshs-03152172
https://shs.hal.science/halshs-03152172v2 Preprint submitted on 3 Jun 2024 HAL is a multi-disciplinary …

Moral preferences in bargaining

P Juan-Bartroli, E Karagözoğlu - Economic Theory, 2024 - Springer
We analyze the equilibrium of a bilateral bargaining game (Nash, 1953, Econometrica, 21:
128–140). where at least one of the individuals has a preference for morality (homo moralis) …

Ethics, morality, and game theory

M Alfano, H Rusch, M Uhl - Games, 2018 - mdpi.com
Ethics is a field in which the gap between words and actions looms large. Game theory and
the empirical methods it inspires look at behavior instead of the lip service people …

Universalization and altruism

JF Laslier - Social Choice and Welfare, 2023 - Springer
The κ-universalization of a symmetric game is the game in which each player considers that
any other player chooses with probability κ the same stategy as she. To any normal form …