Freedom and Coercion in Joint Effort Games
By: Karl Sigmund
From: Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna
A-1010 Vienna, Austria
At: Complexo Interdisciplinar, Anfiteatro
[2006-11-22]
The prevalence of costly punishment in joint enterprises is a puzzling feature of human cooperation. We will show that it is more likely to evolve in voluntary games than in compulsory games, using methods from the theory of evolutionary games in finite populations.