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SUBMITTER: Han TA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4305422 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Han The Anh TA Pereira Luís Moniz LM Lenaerts Tom T
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface 20150201 103
When creating a public good, strategies or mechanisms are required to handle defectors. We first show mathematically and numerically that prior agreements with posterior compensations provide a strategic solution that leads to substantial levels of cooperation in the context of public goods games, results that are corroborated by available experimental data. Notwithstanding this success, one cannot, as with other approaches, fully exclude the presence of defectors, raising the question of how th ...[more]