Working Paper

Altruism and Envy in Contests: An Evolutionarily Stable Symbiosis

Kai A. Konrad
CESifo, Munich, 2002

CESifo Working Paper No. 825

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.

Keywords: altruism, envy, contests, evolutionary stability