Involution game with migration and spatial heterogeneity of social resources
Bo Li, Qiwen Ge, Yong Shi

TL;DR
This paper develops an evolutionary game model incorporating migration and spatial resource heterogeneity to analyze involution, revealing how resource distribution and effort thresholds influence socio-economic competition dynamics.
Contribution
It introduces a novel model combining migration, effort, and spatial heterogeneity, and provides both simulation and theoretical analysis of involution phenomena.
Findings
Similar resource levels suppress involution
Increased total resources exacerbate involution
Migration probability has little effect on outcomes
Abstract
Involution, a phenomenon of excessive competition with diminishing returns, has become a pressing socio-economic concern in contemporary China, prompting both academic inquiry and policy interventions. This paper proposes an evolutionary game model of involution that incorporates agent migration and spatial heterogeneity in resource distribution. The model captures realistic features such as effort-based resource allocation, local interactions on a lattice, and mobility driven by payoff comparisons. We explore how varying conditions of migration and resource allocation influence the dynamics of involution. The key findings from our simulations are as follows: when total resources are held constant, similar resource levels across different regions tend to suppress involution; conversely, an increase in total resources exacerbates it. In addition, the probability of migration does not…
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Taxonomy
TopicsGame Theory and Applications · Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis · Merger and Competition Analysis
