Cooperating on networks: inequality and social structure

NetSciX 2026 Conference Submission137 Authors

Keywords: game theory, repeated games on networks, asymmetric public goods game

TL;DR: This paper examines how endowment inequality and social structure affect cooperation in public goods games, showing that cooperativeness is driven by the network’s Perron eigenvalue and maximised in nested split graphs, though not always efficiently.

Submission Number: 137