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The downside of heterogeneity: How established relations counteract systemic adaptivity in tasks assignments
Giona Casiraghi, Christian Zingg, Frank Schweitzer
We study the lock-in effect in a network of task assignments. Agents have a heterogeneous fitness for solving tasks and can redistribute unfinished tasks to other agents. They lear…
Social nucleation: Group formation as a phase transition
Frank Schweitzer, Georges Andres
The spontaneous formation and subsequent growth, dissolution, merger and competition of social groups bears similarities to physical phase transitions in metastable finite systems.…
Should the government reward cooperation? Insights from an agent-based model of wealth redistribution
Frank Schweitzer, Luca Verginer, Giacomo Vaccario
In our multi-agent model agents generate wealth from repeated interactions for which a prisoner's dilemma payoff matrix is assumed. Their gains are taxed by a government at a rate…
Quantifying the importance of firms by means of reputation and network control
Yan Zhang, Frank Schweitzer
The reputation of firms is largely channeled through their ownership structure. We use this relation to determine reputation spillovers between transnational companies and their pa…