Working Paper
Altruism and Envy in Contests: An Evolutionarily Stable Symbiosis
Kai A. Konrad
CESifo, Munich, 2002
CESifo Working Paper No. 825
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