[go: up one dir, main page]
IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ver/wpaper/55-2009.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Free riders and strong reciprocators coexist in public goods experiments: evolutionary foundations

Author

Listed:
  • Angelo Antoci

    (University of Sassari)

  • Paolo Russu

    (University of Sassari)

  • Luca Zarri

    (Department of Economics (University of Verona))

Abstract
Experimental evidence indicates that free riders and strongly reciprocal papers coexist in the public goods game framework. By means of an evolutionary analysis, we provide an endogenization of this behavioral regularity.

Suggested Citation

  • Angelo Antoci & Paolo Russu & Luca Zarri, 2009. "Free riders and strong reciprocators coexist in public goods experiments: evolutionary foundations," Working Papers 55/2009, University of Verona, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:ver:wpaper:55/2009
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://dse.univr.it//workingpapers/WP55.pdf
    File Function: First version
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Other versions of this item:

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Antoci, Angelo & Russu, Paolo & Zarri, Luca, 2014. "Tax evasion in a behaviorally heterogeneous society: An evolutionary analysis," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 42(C), pages 106-115.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Free Riding; Cooperation; Strong Reciprocity; Public Goods Game; Evolutionary Game Theory;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • B41 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology - - - Economic Methodology
    • C73 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Stochastic and Dynamic Games; Evolutionary Games
    • D74 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ver:wpaper:55/2009. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Michael Reiter (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/isverit.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.