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The role of the entrepreneur's human capital in start-up companies: mode of entry, start-up capital and bootstrap financing University of Antwerp
Self-Interested Agents can Bootstrap Symbolic Communication if They Punish Cheaters. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
We examine the social prerequisites for symbolic communication by studying a language game embedded within a signaling game, in which cooperation is possible but unenforced, and agents have incentive to deceive. Despite this incentive, and even with persistent cheating, naming conventions can still arise from strictly local interactions, as long as agents employ sufficient mechanisms to detect deceit. However, unfairly antagonistic strategies ...