Blar i Discussion papers (SAM) på forfatter "Kolstad, Ivar"
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Social origins of a work ethic : norms, mobility and urban unemployment
Kolstad, Ivar (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-03)Neighbourhood effects and worker mobility have been proposed as explanations for the pattern of employment in cities. This paper presents a the oretical framework within which the joint impact of these two factors can ... -
Viscosity and dispersion in an evolutionary model of learning
Kolstad, Ivar (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-03)A two-population evolutionary model of learning is proposed where there is a conflict of interests between populations, and where interaction ranges from complete viscosity to complete dispersion. The long run stochastically ... -
What constitutes a convention? : implications for the coexistence of conventions
Kolstad, Ivar (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-03)A model of repeated play of a coordination game, where stage games have a location in social space, and players receive noisy signals of the true location of their games, is reviewed. Sugden (1995) suggests that in such ...