Bonus-based mercenary punishment promotes cooperation in public goods games

Various regions often adopt punish strategies to solve traffic congestion problems. Punishing defectors is an effective strategy to solve the first-order free-rider problem in a public goods game. But this behavior is costly because the punisher is often also involved in the original joint venture a...

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Published in:	Heliyon
Main Authors:	Hongwei Kang, Shaoxiang Liu, Qingyi Chen, Yong Shen, Xingping Sun
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Elsevier 2024-01-01
Subjects:	Cooperation Bonus Mercenary punish Subsidy Public goods game
Online Access:	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844023099565