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 …

Public goods games paraphrase the problem of cooperation in game theoretical terms.
Cooperators contribute to a public good and thereby increase the welfare of others at a cost …

The public goods game represents a straightforward generalization of the prisoner's
dilemma to an arbitrary number of players. Since the dominant strategy is to defect, both …

The Public Goods Game is one of the most popular models for studying the origin and
maintenance of cooperation. In its simplest form, this evolutionary game has two regimes …

We investigate a type of public goods games played in groups of individuals who choose
how much to contribute towards the production of a common good, at a cost to themselves …

The relationship between group's contribution and public goods produced often exhibits
nonlinearity, which constitutes the generalized public goods game. Far less attention has …

Evolution of cooperation has been a major issue in evolutionary biology. Cooperation is
observed not only in dyadic interactions, but also in social interactions involving more than …

Which punishment or rewards are most effective at maintaining cooperation in public goods
interactions and deterring defectors who are willing to freeload on others' contribution? The …

We review the theory of public goods in biology. In the N-person prisoner's dilemma, where
the public good is a linear function of the individual contributions, cooperation requires some …

The fixation of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems
in biology and social sciences. It is investigated by means of public goods games, the …