Cost of institutional incentives for promoting cooperation in $2\times2$ games and collective risk games

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Autori principali: Duong, M. H., Durbac, C. M., Han, T. A.
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author Duong, M. H.
Durbac, C. M.
Han, T. A.
author_facet Duong, M. H.
Durbac, C. M.
Han, T. A.
contents Prosocial behaviours have been extensively studied across multiple disciplines. Cooperation, requiring a personal cost for collective benefits, is widespread in nature and human society, having been explained through mechanisms such as kin selection, direct and indirect reciprocity, and network reciprocity. Institutional incentives, which reward cooperation and punish anti-social behaviour, offer a promising approach to fostering cooperation in groups of self-interested individuals. Focusing on general $2\times2$ games and the collective risk game (which is a fundamental model for climate action), we analyse the associated cost of providing incentives under evolutionary dynamics governed by Fermi's rule, exploring the asymptotic behaviour of the incentive cost functons in the limits of neutral drift and strong selection. We also implement numerical simulations to study how parameters such as the intensity of selection affect the behaviour of the aforementioned cost functions.
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spellingShingle Cost of institutional incentives for promoting cooperation in $2\times2$ games and collective risk games
Duong, M. H.
Durbac, C. M.
Han, T. A.
Populations and Evolution
Physics and Society
Prosocial behaviours have been extensively studied across multiple disciplines. Cooperation, requiring a personal cost for collective benefits, is widespread in nature and human society, having been explained through mechanisms such as kin selection, direct and indirect reciprocity, and network reciprocity. Institutional incentives, which reward cooperation and punish anti-social behaviour, offer a promising approach to fostering cooperation in groups of self-interested individuals. Focusing on general $2\times2$ games and the collective risk game (which is a fundamental model for climate action), we analyse the associated cost of providing incentives under evolutionary dynamics governed by Fermi's rule, exploring the asymptotic behaviour of the incentive cost functons in the limits of neutral drift and strong selection. We also implement numerical simulations to study how parameters such as the intensity of selection affect the behaviour of the aforementioned cost functions.
title Cost of institutional incentives for promoting cooperation in $2\times2$ games and collective risk games
topic Populations and Evolution
Physics and Society
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02968