Fairness norm through social networks: a simulation approach

Abstract Recently there has been an increased interest in adopting game-theoretic models to social norms. Most of these approaches are generally lacking a structure linking the local level ‘norm’ interaction its global ‘social’ nature. Although numerous studies examined local-interaction games, where emphasis is placed on neighborhood relations, regarding network as whole unique entity seems be quite limited. In this paper, we conduct series simulation experiments examine effects that topology could have speed emergence norm. The fairness norm ultimatum game context, by considering three type (Barabási–Albert, Watts–Strogatz and Erdős–Rényi) several intrinsic topological properties.