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Solving the collective-risk social dilemma with risky assets in well-mixed and structured populations
Xiaojie Chen, Yanling Zhang, Ting-Zhu Huang +1
In the collective-risk social dilemma, players lose their personal endowments if contributions to the common pool are too small. This fact alone, however, does not always deter sel…
Preemptive punishment and the emergence of sanctioning institutions
Tatsuya Sasaki, Satoshi Uchida, Xiaojie Chen
In explaining altruistic cooperation and punishment, the challenging riddle is how transcendental rules can emerge within the empirical world. Game-theoretical studies showed that…
Probabilistic sharing solves the problem of costly punishment
Xiaojie Chen, Attila Szolnoki, Matjaz Perc
Cooperators that refuse to participate in sanctioning defectors create the second-order free-rider problem. Such cooperators will not be punished because they contribute to the pub…