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Altruism and Envy in Contests: An Evolutionarily Stable Symbiosis


Kai A. Konrad


Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance; Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute for Economic Research); Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
December 2002

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 825

Abstract:     
Altruists and envious people who meet in contests are symbionts. They do better than a population of narrowly rational individuals. If there are only altruists and envious individuals, a particular mixture of altruists and envious individuals is evolutionarily stable.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 24

Keywords: Altruism, Envy, Contests, Evolutionary Stability

JEL Classification: C72, D64, D74

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Date posted: January 16, 2003  

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Konrad, Kai A., Altruism and Envy in Contests: An Evolutionarily Stable Symbiosis (December 2002). CESifo Working Paper Series No. 825. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=367460

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