The Effect of Incentives and Meta-incentives on the Evolution of Cooperation.

Although positive incentives for cooperators and/or negative incentives for free-riders in social dilemmas play an important role in maintaining cooperation, there is still the outstanding issue of who should pay the cost of incentives. The second-order free-rider problem, in which players who do no...

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Main Authors: Isamu Okada, Hitoshi Yamamoto, Fujio Toriumi, Tatsuya Sasaki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-05-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4431686?pdf=render