The one-shot public goods game is extended to include institutional incentives (ie reward
and/or punishment) that are meant to promote cooperation. It is shown that the Nash
equilibrium (NE) outcomes predict either partial or fully cooperative behavior in these
extended multi-player games with a continuous strategy space. Furthermore, for some
incentive schemes, multiple NE outcomes are shown to emerge. Stability of all these
equilibria under standard evolutionary dynamics (ie the replicator equation and the …